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Hi everyone.

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You are here because you have heard that Clicker
and Clicker Writer now include Widgit symbols.

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We are really excited to
be adding another scaffold

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to Clicker to support
students in your classrooms.

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So I am here to show you how you can use
symbols alongside some of the existing

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scaffolds in Clicker to support students
further.

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I have told the story before of a child I
worked with in Tower Hamlets who joined

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the school in Year 3 and he worked through many of
the scaffolds in Clicker to support his writing.

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So in Year 3 he was using Sentence Sets to
build up an understanding of a basic

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sentence and by the time he was in Year 6
he was using the spell checker and

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the Predictor to work independently on Clicker
alongside his peers.

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Symbols now add another way to use those
tools independently for students.

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I am going to share my screen and jump
across to Clicker Writer.

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So I have jumped across to
Clicker Writer and I am going

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to go up to the settings
cog and over to pictures.

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Here I have got some Picturize options and
I am going to double check that Picturize

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words in the predictor is turned on and
Picturize words in the spell checker is turned on.

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I am then going to select my source from
CrickPix and go into Widgit Symbols.

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I am imagining I am writing
about natural disasters and

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this is the type of sentence
that he might have written.

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A tsunami is... oh I have noticed I have
made a spelling mistake.

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I am going to right click and I can see my
suggestions.

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Most spell checkers
wouldn't realise that the person

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typing was trying to write
the word tsunami here.

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I can use Clicker supports to check which
word I want.

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So I can right click and Clicker will read
back the suggestions to me.

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Now I have also got symbols to support so
I can check which word I want to add.

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Now I am going to turn the Predictor on.

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I am going to say a tsunami is caused and we
have got caused as a suggestion by an earthquake.

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Again the symbol there supports me to read
the word earthquake.

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Under the ocean... well I
have spelt ocean with an

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S and an H because it
sounds phonetically plausible.

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But again the Predictor with the symbol
there supports that for that learner.

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I can right click to double check.

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And then I know that is the word I want.

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I hit full stop.

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And Clicker reads that sentence back to
me.

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In our classic Clicker voices.

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So adding Widgit Symbols provides another
scaffold to support learners in your classroom.

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I hope you enjoy using them in Clicker.

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Let us know all your successes or if you
need any further support.