Clicker Phonics: Sounds and Letters
by Crick Software
Let's Go!
Powered by Clicker - so this software requires that Clicker 5 or later is installed on the same computer
Sounds and Letters is the fifth program of the Clicker Phonics series and the first part of the Let’s Go! stage. In the Let’s Go stage of the Clicker Phonics series, children are ready for synthetic phonics! This CD-ROM follows the current recommendations for phonics teaching, and can be used alongside other phonics schemes, including Jolly Phonics. Engaging activities build children’s fluency in hearing, saying, reading and writing all 42 phonemes. The activities develop the skills children need to be able to decode unknown words by working out the phonemes, reading them in order, and blending them to read the words.
Sounds and Letters introduces the major grapheme/phoneme correspondences to children. Each letter sound and shape is introduced, and children gain synthetic phonic skills by blending sounds to build words. The phonemes are presented in groups to enable the teacher to introduce them in discrete daily phonic sessions. Strategies are presented to scaffold the process of decoding CVC words to prepare children for reading unknown words.
The First steps – Listen and First steps – Say activities enable children to practise oral blending and segmenting of sounds in spoken words before they are introduced to corresponding graphemes.
The CD is then divided into 7 accumulative letter groups so that children can move incrementally from simple to more complex phonic work. Within each group there is a section that introduces new sounds, and as you move through the groups you can also review the sounds you have already heard.
The following sets of activities are included within each accumulative letter group:
The activities in this section enable children to secure their knowledge of and develop automaticity in recognising grapheme-phoneme correspondences for the group. They do this by listening to, looking at and matching phonemes and graphemes in a variety of ways.
The activities in this section enable children to learn, practise and apply the skill of blending phonemes in order to decode (or read) words. They do this by hearing sounds or looking at words and blending from left to right. They then find a spoken or written word match, a picture match or record the matching word themselves.
The activities in this section enable children to learn, practise and apply the skill of segmenting words into phonemes in order to encode (or spell) them. They do this by hearing words and segmenting them into their constituent phonemes. They then count the sounds or build the words grapheme by grapheme.
The activities in the Monster read and Monster write sections involve children reading and writing nonsense words. The use of non-words means that children really have to use their phonic knowledge and skills to decode and encode letter-sound relationships, rather than relying on sight-word memory.
Additional Activities
There are also a number of additional activities which can be carried out independently from the letter groups, such as Tricky words, which helps children to develop automaticity in recognising high-frequency ‘tricky’ words, and Word sums, in which children practise reading and spelling compound words.
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Clicker Phonics Background
The Clicker Phonics series gets your children going with phonics and delivers engaging materials at the right level for their needs. It is designed to be used alongside any phonics scheme, including Jolly Phonics, and takes children from the first steps of discriminating environmental sounds right up to systematic synthetic phonics.
Using the proven technology of Clicker, Clicker Phonics:
- develops speaking and listening skills and builds phonological awareness.
- presents a programme of systematic phonic work
- supports active learning through listening and recording as students get to record their own voices as they build words phonetically.
You will find Clicker Phonics an easy yet incredibly powerful way to use computers and information technology to support all your 3-to-6-year-olds, plus older students who are struggling with reading. Perfect for English language learners too!
All the activities are carefully designed to be used in both whole-class teaching with the whiteboard or touchscreen monitor, and for individual work.
This software is included on the Clicker SuperDrive.
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System Requirements
- Clicker 5 or later for Windows or for Mac
NETWORKING: All of Crick Software`s programs can be used on a network. To purchase for a network, simply buy the Site Licence. The CD includes a network installation.
Clicker Phonics: Sounds and Letters is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Early Childhood
- Early Primary
Clicker Phonics: Sounds and Letters is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Early concepts
- Literacy
Users can access Clicker Phonics: Sounds and Letters in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- Touchscreen
- Single Switch
- Multiple Switches
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