Trackers for Clicker - Level 1: Elephant Tracks
by Crick Software
Age-appropriate reading for reluctant readers aged 7 or older
Powered by Clicker - so this software requires that Clicker 5 or later is installed on the same computer
The first unit of the Trackers for Clicker 5 series includes these four onscreen stories:
- The Big Mess
Nick gives Kaz a crisp but she doesn’t like it and throws it away – and that’s when the trouble starts - Catch It, Tizz!
Can Tizz catch when it really matters? - Buzz Ball
Slig wants to beat Kaz at Buzz Ball. Lug and Glitch want to help Slig. What will they do? - The Duck From Zog
Jen’s new pet is a duck – but it’s not just any old duck…
Overview of Trackers for Clicker
- Joint Crick Software and Oxford University Press publication for children aged 7+ who have a reading age of 5+
- Based on the outstanding fiction books from Oxford’s Trackers structured reading series
- Particularly suitable for struggling readers, reluctant readers, and for English Language Learners.
Benefits
Motivate struggling readers with age appropriate materials
Each Trackers for Clicker title includes four Trackers fiction books in an exciting, interactive on-screen format, plus a range of connected reading and writing activities. The stories provide struggling upper primary students with highly engaging reading material at a level they can cope with. The twenty-eight books are divided into seven carefully graded levels to ensure progression and maintain motivation.
Develop key reading skills
Trackers teaches more of the key reading skills than any other special needs course, providing extensive opportunities for consolidation. It combines the approaches of high-frequency words, phonics, syntax and semantics, whilst complementing and extending the UK’s Additional Literacy Support and Further Literacy Support initiatives.
Extend comprehension and writing skills through differentiated activities
Alongside each story there is a range of Clicker activities, all based on specific literacy objectives. At word level, activities include practising high-frequency word recognition and phonic word building. Sentence level activities develop confidence in using the ‘tricky words’ from the story, whilst text level activities include extended writing supported by Clicker Grids. In addition, a range of comprehension activities cover both retrieval and inferential questions.
What activities are included?
Each CD includes all of the following Clicker activities:
The reading activities encourage children to become familiar with ten high-frequency words from the book.
Each of the word building activities supports children in building eight words from the book using chunks of sound. The chunks are colour-coded to help children distinguish between them.
In the sentence activities, children use ‘tricky words’ from the book in the context of a sentence.
Each book will have either two writing activities or two question activities. Each writing activity provides a writing frame to complete a piece of text about a certain aspect of the story.
Each book will have either two writing activities or two question activities. Each question activity encourages children to extract information from the story. In Set A, the questions focus on retrieval of detail, whilst Set B focuses on inferential knowledge.
This activity enables children to write their own version of the book. Each screen has a picture, a white text box and pop-up grids, to help them create their own story.
The character activities require children to consider some of the characteristics of key characters, using specific incidents in the text.
This software is also included on the super-value Clicker SuperDrive!
Trackers for Clicker - Level 1: Elephant Tracks is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Upper Primary
Trackers for Clicker - Level 1: Elephant Tracks is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Literacy
- Switch use
- Switch timing
- Choosing with a switch
Users can access Trackers for Clicker - Level 1: Elephant Tracks in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- Touchscreen
- Single Switch
- Multiple Switches
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