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Sounds Around is the first program of the Clicker Phonics series and the first part of the Get Ready! stage. Get your children ready for phonics by engaging them in these fun activities where they learn to discriminate between sounds – the difference between a dog’s bark and a cow’s moo; a baby’s cry and children’s laughter; a sneeze and a cough. Developing this awareness builds the foundation of young children’s abilities to hear and discriminate between different sounds in words. Children also develop their speaking skills as they record their own sounds.

In Sounds Around, children learn to listen to and discriminate between sounds in five localities:

• the park
  
• street
  
• garden
  
• beach
  
• and farm

There are many opportunities to record their own sounds and to talk about the different localities, thereby creating a link with geography work on localities and science work on sound. Children can explore the locations and complete a range of activities that encourage them to listen carefully and discriminate between the different sounds they hear.

Sounds Around includes the following activities for each location:

Find the sound

This activity helps children to develop an awareness of sounds in different localities. They do this by looking at pictures and listening to associated sounds.

Behind the door

This activity helps children to develop their listening skills and their ability to identify various environmental sounds. They do this by matching the sound behind the door to the correct picture.

Sound jigsaw

This activity develops children’s awareness of differences between sounds in the environment. Children complete a jigsaw puzzle by matching the pictures on each puzzle piece with the correct sound.

Sound game

This activity aims to develop the ability to discriminate between sounds in the environment by asking students to identify matching sounds.

My sounds

This activity encourages children to think about sounds we make with our voices to imitate familiar environmental sounds. Children create a picture book and record their own sounds to accompany the pictures.

What can you see?

Children develop their speaking and listening skills by looking at picture scenes and talking about the things they see.

What can you hear?

Children listen to a range of environmental sounds and are tasked with guessing the source.

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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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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Clicker Phonics: Sounds Around - Single User Licence
	CSCPHON1-SU	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$89.00	$0.00
	Clicker Phonics: Sounds Around - Site Licence	You can install this on any computer on which you use Clicker on a single geographic site.
	CSCPHON1-SL	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$169.00	$0.00
	Clicker Phonics - All 6 Titles - Site Licence	You can install this on any computer on which you use Clicker on a single geographic site.
	CSCPHONALL-SL	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$669.00	$0.00