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Hi, everyone.

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I think you're here because
you've heard that Clicker

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and Clicker Writer now
include Widgit Symbols.

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This is my second video to show you some
of the features that you can use with

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Widgit Symbols to support students further
in Clicker.

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Many of us would have written our own
texts and included Widgit Symbols above

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some of the key words to support students
when they're reading those texts,

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perhaps at the start of a unit of work
or a new topic.

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Now in Clicker, students can add those
symbols to text they've written as they're going.

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I'm going to go across to Clicker Writer
and show you that in action.

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Here I've got some sentences that a student
might have written about natural disasters.

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I might have used this Clicker Set that I've taken
from LearningGrids and added Widgit Symbols to.

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Now that I've finished
these sentences, I'm going to

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go up to picture and
Picturize with Widgit Symbols.

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And you can see those key words have been
Picturized.

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So when the student is reading back their
text, they can use those symbols to

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support their reading when they're reading
to themselves, to their peers,

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to their teacher.

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Okay, I'm going to bring up a new document
to show you another way that we could do this.

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I've told the story before of a child that I worked
with in Tower Hamlets who was mainly non-verbal.

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His main purpose for writing was using
Picturize in Clicker.

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His passion was animals
and I'm going to show you how

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he could now use Widgit
Symbols to support his writing.

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Back in Clicker Writer, I'm going to go up
to the settings cog up here and pictures.

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I'm going to go to this setting here,
Picturize words as I type in the document.

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I'm going to turn that on.

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Now I'm going to type the tiger has black
and orange stripes.

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I'm going to hit the full stop

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and Clicker reads that
back in a high quality voice.

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I could continue writing the elephant has
a long trunk.

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And again, those Widgit Symbols appear as
he is typing.

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It's really motivating for him.

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So some more ways that
you can use symbols in Clicker

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with Picturize to support
students in your classroom.

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So just another one of Clicker's many
scaffolds that students can choose to

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use and teachers can use to support
writing.