This is an exercise for language delayed students. Students are given practice with wh questions: who, what and where, and walked through an errorless exercise in making sentences that answer the above questions. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts ( Writing & Representing) Grade 3: use the features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including – complete simple and compound sentences – various sentence types (e.g., declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory). Created by Yvonne Green.

Grade 1, grade 2. Emergent writer's 13 page Clicker activity telling "All About Me". Minimal picture support for writers who recognize simple words. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Writing and Representing): Grade 1 Grade 2 - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring – ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic – developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. Created by Mary Henning.

This is an "All About Me" writing activity adapted for students with low vision. his activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Yvonne Green.

Animal matching game is a simple set of grids using photos of animals ( lion, cat, parrot, and gorilla). Using auditory prompts, it is a self correcting "find the..." acitvity. Start with the 'home' grid.This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Listening Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension, – retelling or restating – following two-step instructions – asking questions for clarification and understanding.

Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7 and up. This novel studies activity is for the student who is learning about and outlining the beginning, middle and end of a story. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations: Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing), and for English Language Arts grades 3-7: Reading and Viewing(Purposes). Created by Jane Rondow

Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7. This a novel studies template activity for the student who is learning about story parts. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations: Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing). Created by Jane Rondow

Book review template designed for easy scanning.This activity supports the Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts: Reading and Viewing(Purposes): read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate information texts, such as – non-fiction books – textbooks and other instructional materials – materials that contain diagrams, charts, illustrations, or graphs – reports and articles from newspapers and children’s magazines – reference material – web sites designed for children – instructions and procedures Classroom Suite activity created in Intellitalk by Heather Campbell. grade 3 grade 4 grade 5 grade 6 grade 7

Kindergarten, Grade 1. This activity provides young students a way to interact with the usual snowman accessories and to practise talking about them. A sentence frame is suggested and there is opportunity for the student to record their own voices to practise making their target sentence. The activity is similar to playing Mr. Potato Head. Created by Yvonne Green

Children build a snowman in this sequencing activity. The pictures of the snowman were screen captures from a great online "dress the snowman" game at allthingschristmas.Com Created by Mallory Burton.

This Intellitalk 3 activity is a simple sentence creation activity about cats. It works well as a template. Great for single switch scanning.This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. [animals]

Grade 3 through high school. This Clicker Paint novel studies Activity is for the student who is just new to character and setting and has difficulty discussing what characters you might find in the various settings. On each page of the book is a picture of a different setting. In Clicker Paint the student can select one or several character stamps to add to the picture. They can use the picture to discuss what the setting is and what characters are in the setting. Students can choose to record their ideas using the pop-up recorder. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations: Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing). Created by Maureen Lafleche

Grade 3 through high school. This novel studies activity is for the student who is learning about characters and setting. There is one picture on each of the pages. The student looks at the picture and then writes a name for the setting and lists 1 - 3 characters that might be found in this setting. Students are encouraged to think out of the box and add characters that are not human, i.e. robots, aliens or animals. Students can choose to record their ideas using the pop-up recorder. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations: Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing). Created by Maureen Lafleche

This activity has been adapted from Found Treasures on Traci's 17th List of Ten: Ten Creative Writing Activities http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/017.shtml The novel studies activity is intended for middle and high school writers. Each page provides a writing prompt for the student. One part of the character treasure hunt can be done daily as part of creative writing or done whenever just for the sake of writing. It is intended to provide the writer with writing prompts that will stimulate creativity and make writing fun! Created by Maureen Lafleche

In this game activity students learn about consonats using Christmas vocabulary and match pictures to consonants. The Christmas Consonants featured are: B,C,H,L,P,R,S,T. When students get a perfect score they can hear music! Created by Scott MacKay.

This activity includes three errorless writing tasks. The student is provided with the beginning sentence, "At Christmas time I will hear..."( "At Christmas time I will see and smell" and "At Christmas time I will taste") l and 5 possible endings to the sentence. Created by Kathy Ryan.

To use this Christmas Joke grid: 1. Click a question to transfer it to the document where it will be read. 2. Click the answers cell and choose an answer to the joke or riddle. Created by Mallory Burton.

In two activities the student is shown two Christmas objects and asked to "Find the ___". In the third activity student is shown two Christmas objects and asked to identify the correct answer to a Wh- question. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Kindergarten, grade 1. This activity provides young students a way to interact with Christmas vocabulary and to practise talking about it. Students can interact with the vocabulary in the context of decorating a tree and fireplace. There is also the opportunity for the students to record their own voices to practise making their target sentence. The resulting picture can be printed. Created by Yvonne Green

This Intellitalk 3 activity is a simple sentence creation activity about dogs. It works well as a template. Great for single switch scanning. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. [animals]

This is an earry learner language activity with an Easter theme. The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1:-use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including – complete simple sentences Created by Linda Calliou. [Holidays and Seasons]

This Intellitalk 3 activity is a simple sentence creation activity about endangered animals. It works well as a template. Great for single switch scanning. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations

This Intellitalk 3 activity is a simple sentence creation activity about farm animals. It works well as a template. Great for single switch scanning. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations

Grade 1. This Clicker Grid Set is a unit of activities with a Halloween costume theme. It is designed to support students who are learning about Halloween, counting to 10, begining reading, begining writing(with forced order). Vocabulary introduced: alien, devil, ghost, mummy, pumpkin, reaper, vampire, witch, skeleton and pirate. These activities support the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Grade 1 Reading and Viewing: read and reread just-right texts independently for 10 to 15 minutes daily for enjoyment and to improve fluency and comprehension; Grade 1 Mathematics/Number: recognize, at a glance, and name familiar arrangements of 1 to 10 objects or dots. Created by Daphne Mercier.

In this repetitive talking accessible book, a variety of animals are presented. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts ( Listening Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension, – retelling or restating – following two-step instructions – asking questions for clarification and understanding. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This Intellitalk 3 activity is a simple sentence creation activity about jungle animals. It works well as a template. Great for single switch scanning. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations

Enjoy the song based on 'Mary Wore a Red Dress' while choosing colours and singing along. The user can alternate between choosing different colours for a dress for Mary or a shirt for Thomas. It also supports the Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Speaking & Listening) Kindergarten Grade1 -use strategies when listening to make and clarify meaning, including Created by Yvonne Green.

Kindergarten, grade 1: Enjoy the song based on "Mary Wore a Red Dress" while choosing colours and singing along. The user can alternate between choosing different colours for a dress for Mary or a shirt for Thomas. It also supports the Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) for Kindergarten and Grade 1: create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Speaking and Listening) Kindergarten and Grade 1: use strategies when listening to make and clarify meaning. Created by Yvonne Green.

Matching pictures to words activity. A set of four grids of four cells on topics: vehicles, classroom articles, signs, and technology words. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading ) Grade 1 Grade 2: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words.

This activity has students listening to a month clue and identifying which month of the year goes with the clue. Works with single switch scanning. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Math Grade 2 Grade 3: Shape and Space ( Measurement): - read and write the date, including the days of the week and use the abbreviations and names of the months of the year in order.

This activity has students matching month of the year words. Works well with single switch scanning. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grade 2 - Shape & Shape - (Measurement ): relate the number of days to a week and the number of months to a year in a problem-solving context.

A simple writing activity for a student who can choose from a selection of three items at a time similar to Kathy Ryan's My Day Writing Activity. The student starts with "Today I did" and picks the activities she did that day. A print out of the finished document gives the student a way to review and talk about her day with her teacher, friends and family. Teams might modify the grids so that each selection sends a full sentence to the document. "Today I " could send the sentence "Here are the things I did today" to the document. And then, for example, selecting "calendar" would send the phrase " I did calendar today" to the document. This supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts: Kindergarten: C1 - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. Grade 1: C1 - create straightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes. Created by Daphne Hitchcock SD61.

A simple writing task to end the day. The student makes a list of the activities that were accomplished and an evaluation of the day. This supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts: Kindergarten: C1 - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. Grade 1: C1 - create straightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes ,and dislikes. Created by Kathy Ryan. grade1

This activity is designed to provide practice identifying common items of clothing by name and to extend sight vocabulary. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Grade 1 Grade 2: use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Paul Hamilton. [matching, clothes]

Sentence making activity focussing on choices of pronouns, noun/verb agreement, and choice of past or present progressive verb tense. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts ( Writing & Representing) Grade 2 and Grade 3 : Use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing: - past and present tenses; - a period to mark the end of a sentence. Updated January 2011 from an original activity created by Yvonne Green.

Kindergarten, Grade 1 and other young students. This is a collection of 6 well known primary language songs designed to cognitively engage young students through interaction and appropriate timing of the song elements. Students can sing along or just listen but they must make selections in order to make the song move forward. Goals include choice making, sequencing and concepts of big and little. It also provides an opportunity for students to record themselves and string words through familiar and fun songs. Created by Yvonne Green

Children click "same" or "different" to tell whether two snowmen are the same or different.The pictures of the snowmen were screen captures from a great online "dress the snowman" game at allthingschristmas.com Created by Mallory Burton.

his activity was creted to help students discern activities that should be done alone contrasted with activities one could do with the family. Created by Yvonne Green.

Grade 1 English Language/Reading and Viewing. In this activity, students will sort items by initial sound. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to help children to recognize objects associated with a range of sports. Each page contains three sports pictures and a labeling pop-up to match names to pictures. Click on the yellow cells to open the pop-ups to send words for labeling. Created by Yvonne Green.

This Clicker 5 activity helps students learn colours by matching the colour with photographs of flowers. Students can choose colours from a list and also use a model sentence and simple vocabulary to write a sentence about each flower. This activity supports BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grade Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 - Earth and Science (Daily &Seasonal Changes): -describe changes that occur in daily and seasonal cycles and their effects on living things. It also supports the Learning Outcomes for Grade K-1 English Language Arts: Writing -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Jane Rondow.

Grade 3 through high school. This novel studies activity follows the format of the story map. The student uses Clicker 5 and Clicker Paint to write and draw about the characters, setting, problem, how the problem was solved and whether they would recommend the novel. Included are 3 variations of the story map. These activities support students from grade 3 through high school. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations: Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing). Created by Maureen Lafleche

Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7 and up. This novel studies activity provides the student with an alternate means of representing their comprehension of books read or listened to. * A pop-up voice recorder allows the student to record their book report in sections and have it read back as one sound file. If the computer has a built in microphone the student can record directly from that, otherwise a headset with microphone can be used. Students also have access to the talking word processor, Clicker Writer, for those who wish to write some words. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations(2010): Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing) and for grades 3-7 English Language Arts (2006): Reading and Writing(Purposes). Created by Jane Rondow

This activity is a Read and Write collection using a Christmas Tree farm as a topic for writing descriptive sentences ... both "is" and "is not" can be used. Picture prompts are supplied for writing descriptions of trees and branches. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. Created by Nedra Post.

This activity is a set of questions for The Motorcycle Race chapter book from the Tom and Ricky Series. This activity has reading comprehension and multiple choice questions where you highlight the answer. Includes questions for Chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts- Reading: read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate literary texts (e.g., stories, legends, poems).

This is a 10 question spelling quiz in Classroom Suite 4. The word the learner is to spell is in place but the text color of the word has been changed to white text so the learner cannot see the word they are asked to spell as the sentence is read. You can edit the words the learner is asked to spell. See further directions in the activity. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory. Created by Shel Harris.

This grid set contains: 1. a word recognition activity; 2. a writing activity that uses the Forced Order feature to give students 3 choices in each of these categories: pronouns, verbs, objects, time This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts/Writing and Representing: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring – ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic – developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. Created by Daphne Mercier.

This Clicker activity is designed to give students information about the keys on a keyboard, to give them practice locating letters that spell simple words and to give them access to an on-screen keyboard that is not a "pop-up." Created by Kathy Ryan and Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1 and Grade 2 - In this gridset, the student can read and write about things that they do at school. Statements are accompanied by animated images and sound effects to support comprehension. This gridset is appropriate for early learners. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLO for Grade 1 and Grade 2: English Language Arts Writing and Representing: - create imaginative writing and representations, often modelled on those they have read, heard, or viewed, featuring ideas represented through sentences and images that generally connect to a topic sentence fluency by using simple sentences, dialogue, phrases, and poetic language word choice by attempting to use new and descriptive words voice by showing some evidence of individuality organization that generally follows a form presented or modelled by the teacher; stories include a beginning, middle, and end. Created by Kathy Ryan

Kindergarten, grade 1. This alphabet rap story is designed for students to learn alphabet letters and sounds. Click on the speaker icon to hear each page. This supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten-(Reading and Viewing) Kindergarten Grade 1: - recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words Created by Kathy Ryan. [letters, early reading]

Grade 1, grade 2. This is a simple spelling test using animal words. There are 12 spelling words. The student clicks on a numbered cell that contains a picture of the word (such as a picture of a dog for the word dog), the word is spoken along with a sentence using the spelling word. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1, grade 2 and emergent readers and writers. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of animals and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about animals. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the animals category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This activity is a set of 2 word banks with Arctic animal vocabulary. It supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 2 Grade 3: - use a variety of strategies during writing and representing to express thoughts, including – referring to class-generated criteria – referring to word banks Created by Carol Graham.

Grade 1, and early learners. For early literacy practise. Uses carrier phrase of "I can..." in 3 connected interactive activities: stamping, sentence scramble and a matching writing activity. Created by Yvonne Green.

Kindergarten, Grade 1 and emergent writers. In this errorless learning gridset, the student is to select the correct initial letter (b or d) in the pictured words. Verbal feedback is given on accuracy and the gridset will only progress when the correct answer is selected. Created by Wendy Smith and Caron Ridgeway.

Grade K, grade 1, grade 2 and students who are learning to read. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy supplemental book "At Book." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten: - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning English Language Arts Grade1: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail English Language Arts Grade 2: - use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) - editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling) Created by SET-BC.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "Australian Animals." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2: - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. - Create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. - Word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail - Use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC, inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

This is a forced order sentence writing activity to support Balanced Literacy Unit 1. Students create sentences using forced order and also choose from a list of 5 choices.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for: English Language Arts Kindergarten: - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning English Language Arts Grade1: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail English Language Arts Grade 2: - use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) - editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "Bedtime at the Farm." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2: - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. - Create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. - Word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail - Use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC, inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "By the Shore." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2: - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. - Create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. - Word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail - Use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC, inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

This is a forced order sentence writing activity to support Balanced Literacy Unit 1. Students create sentences using forced order and also choose from a list of 5 choices.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for: English Language Arts Kindergarten: - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning English Language Arts Grade1: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail English Language Arts Grade 2: - use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) - editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "Dogs Make Good Friends." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2: - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. - Create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. - Word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail - Use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC, inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

This is a forced order sentence writing activity to support Balanced Literacy Unit 1. Students create sentences using forced order and also choose from a list of 5 choices.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for: English Language Arts Kindergarten: - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning English Language Arts Grade1: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail English Language Arts Grade 2: - use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) - editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC

This is a forced order sentence writing activity to support Balanced Literacy Unit 1. Students create sentences using forced order and also choose from a list of 5 choices.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for: English Language Arts Kindergarten: - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning English Language Arts Grade1: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail English Language Arts Grade 2: - use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) - editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "Bedtime at the Farm." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2: - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. - Create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. - Word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail - Use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC, inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

Grade 1 and beginning readers. This is a sequential writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy book, "In the Sea." This gridset contains the 5 activities from the activity below named "Balanced Literacy 5 Writing Activities", but in this activity all 5 writing activities are combined and accessed from a "home" grid. Students choose which sea animal to write about from the "home" grid. They select cells from left to right to create sentences from the book. Created by Vanessa Griffon

Grade 1 and beginning readers.This is folder of 5 writing activities that support the Balanced Literacy book "In the Sea" . Each activity focuses on one of the sea animals from the book and they all follow the pattern set in the book. Students choose words from a word bank that is organized sequentially to match the book. Since these activities have been created using a word bank template, after the student is able to create the sentences following along sequentially, the words can be re-ordered using the alphabetizing tool on the explorer toolbar. Created by Vanessa Griffon.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "In the Sea." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning; and English Language Arts Grade 1 - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail. Created by SET-BC and inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "Quail Makes a Snack." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2: - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. - Create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. - Word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail - Use strategies after writing and representing to improve their work, including revising to enhance a writing trait (e.g., ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, organization) editing for conventions (e.g., capitals, punctuation, spelling). Created by SET-BC, inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "Where are the pets?" Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning; and English Language Arts Grade 1 - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail. Created by SET-BC and inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, beginning readers and writers. This is a modeled sentence writing activity to support the Balanced Literacy anchor book, "Wild Animals." Students listen to and read a modeled sentence. Then they select words that are randomly arranged from the grid to write the sentence.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education prescribed learning outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten - create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning; and English Language Arts Grade 1 - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions - word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail. Created by SET-BC and inspired by Vanessa Griffon.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of body parts and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about the body. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the body parts category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6. Nine reading strategies are displayed visually on a bookmark for students to use when they "get stuck." Each template has three bookmarks that need to be printedf, folded and laminated for student use. Created by Fiona Mosher

This gridset is designed to support students completing calendar activities. The student is required to select the date, weather and season. He or she is also asked to specify what day yesterday was and what day tomorrow will be. Created by Kathy Ryan. grade1

Updated 2012: Canuck hockey players with picture and name in Clicker grids ( from 2010-2011 season ). Use as a template to revise for new seasonal team information. Created by Sharon O'Dornan. [Sports, Canada, British Columbia]

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to help students learn to match small letters and capital letters On each grid the small letter is shown on the left. Two capital letters are shown on the right. Clicking on any text will speak those words. Clicking on the small letter will speak that letter. Moving to the wrong letter will show a frown face and the message 'not this one'. Clicking on the wrong letter, will speak that letter. Clicking on the correct letter, will speak that letter, and move to a reward page. Click on the reward page to move to a new letter matching page. The activity will continue indefinitely. When you have finished, click on either the home button (house) or explorer button (magnifying glass). This supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Kindergarten-(Reading and Viewing) Kindergarten Grade 1: - recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words. Created by Suzanne Harwood.

Grade 3. Grade 4. This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to build sentences using prepositions and adjectives. It is a forced order activity in which the student chooses the correct preposition or adjective from a list. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLO for English Language Arts grade 3 and 4: - expand their vocabulary by: with assistance, using parts of speech (e.g., nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions) Created by Angie Grant.

This Halloween grid set contains: 1. a word recognition activity at two levels 2. a writing activity at two levels - one using the Forced Order feature, and one that students freely select, to give students choices in each of these categories:nouns, verbs, adjectives, and objects. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts/Writing: Representing: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic -developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns. Created by Daphne Mercier.

This grid set contains: 1. a word recognition activity; 2. a writing activity that uses the Forced Order feature to give students 3 choices in each of these categories: pronouns, verbs, objects, nouns This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts/Writing and Representing: - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring - ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic - developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions. Created by Daphne Mercier.

This Clicker Grid Set is for students who have beginning literacy skills. This activity provides students with the opportunity to learn beginning consonant sounds using different Christmas themed pictures. Once the activity has been completed, they can choose from a variety of Christmas songs to listen to. Created by John Cloutier. grade 1 grade 2

Click on the Clicker grid button to hear and see the music video 'Cookie Blues'. A great blues song for any time of year.This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts ( Speaking and Listening): -recognize the structures and patterns of language in oral texts Lyrics are also included. Created by Yvonne Green. [Holidays and Seasons]

Create a Christmas Poem using the letters in Christmas. Created by Kathy Ryan. grade 1

Students compose a Christmas poem by clicking on one of the 5 senses and selecting an item from a wordbank that completes the sentence. Blank Senses Poem grid allows you to brainstorm (with individual students or with the class) things you see, hear, taste, touch, smell at Christmas and enter them on the blank grids prepared for you. Free photos are from FreeFoto.Com, Moregue File, Wikipedia, Flikr and from Stockxpert with individual photographer's permission to redistribute. Created by Mallory Burton.

This is a Christmas theme activity in two parts. 1. The student clicks to hear these Christmas words spoken and spelled out: tree, bell, light, cane 2. The student creates new words using the endings from the above Christmas words and new beginnings: e.g. tree: b + ee = bee, thr + ee = three Created by Carol Graham.

Students click on letters to unscramble the Christmas words. A bank of pictures provides hints. Included is a Blank Word grid set to create your own. Created by Mallory Burton.

Grade 2. In this project, the student can practise identifying signs in the community from 4 pictured alternatives. Feedback is provided on accuracy. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLO for Literacy Foundations, English Language - Grade 2: read or view and demonstrate an understanding of the meaning intended by common symbols and visual texts (e.g., $, @, #, , , traffic signs, community signs, advertising boards, store marquees). Created by Lisa Chambers and Jo-Anne Briscoe.

In this activity the student is to match 6 pictures with 6 words with the same beginning with the same consonant diagraphs: th, sh, ch, and wh. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Kindergarten Prescribed Learning Outcome for English Language Arts (Writing & Representing Features) Grade 1 Grade 2: -use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words. Created by Kathy Ryan. [letters, early reading]

This is a sequencing activity with a Christmas theme. Vocabulary words used: lights, tinsel, balls, ornaments, star, tree skirt, gifts, lamp Some images were borrowed from http://www.akidsheart.com Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 2. In this gridset, the student can learn Dolch grade 2 words in an errorless learning "find the word" gridset. In the writing gridset, the student listens to the sentences to write them. Created by Kathy Ryan

Grade 3. In this gridset, the student can learn Dolch grade 2 words in an errorless learning "find the word" gridset. In the writing gridset, the student listens to the sentences to write them. Created by Kathy Ryan

There are three ways to play this classic game of hangman. You can enter your own secret word, use a custom list of words , or choose a common Dolch word. This activity upports the B.C.Curriculum Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing) Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3: recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words.Created by Scott McKay.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2: In this gridset, the student can learn Dolch Pre-Primer words in an errorless learning "find the word" gridset. In the writing gridset, listen to the sentences to write. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. In this gridset, the student can learn Dolch Primer words in an errorless learning environment. The student is asked to find the word from 4 options. In the writing gridset, the student can listen to the sentences to write. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This Dress Santa is a sequencing activity with a Christmas theme. It can be used with mouse or switch scanning. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Quiz on Eagles created in Kurweil for Mac and Win. Activity is based on facts in the NautreMapping Kurzweil activities. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing- Purposes ) Grade 4: read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate information texts, such as – non-fiction books – textbooks and other instructional materials – materials that contain diagrams, charts, illustrations, or graphs – reports and articles from newspapers and children’s magazines – reference material – web sites designed for children Life Science ( Habitats and Communities for Grade 4: - compare the structures and behaviours of local animals and plants in different habitats and communities Created by Carol Graham. Created by Carol Graham.

Grade 1. This activity uses a small group of pre-primer and primer Dolch words in 6 different interactive activities around a winter theme. The primary goal is literacy but it could easily be modified to have other goals such as articulation. Created by Yvonne Green

This is a template for students to write a story in booklet form about going on an easter egg hunt. The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1: -use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including – complete simple sentences. Created by Linda Calliou. [Holidays and Seasons]

Grade 1, grade 2. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of Fast Foods and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about Fast Foods. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the Fast Foods category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This Clicker grid set provides students with lower literacy skills the ability to write a simple Father's Day poem. It also provides limited choices so the students' may modify and individualize the poem. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1 Grade 2: -use strategies before writing and representing, including – setting a purpose – identifying an audiences Created by John Cloutier. [Holidays and Seasons]

In this gridset, the student is required to identify the letter that makes the sound in two words. Positive feedback for accurate answers.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcome for Grade 1 English Language Arts-Reading and Viewing: recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

In this learning activity, the student is presented with a letter name and is required to find the match. Letters are presented simultaneously in upper and lower case. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Kindergarten Prescribed Learning Outcome for English Language Arts Kindergarten Grade 1: - identify most of the letters of the alphabet and their sounds, and a few high-frequency words, including their name and names of significant others. Created by Kathy Ryan. [early reading]

This Clicker Grid Set is for students who have various beginning literacy skills. Level 1 provides students with the opportunity to interact with the poem by selecting the corresponding pumkin to make it say its line in the poem. Level 2 and 3 allow the student to hear the complete poem and then engage in reproducing the poem with, or without symbol help. Created by John Cloutier. [Halloween, Holidays and Seasons]

With a model sentence for reference, this Thanksgiving-based poem can be recreated usings words and picture supports. Created by Nedra Post.

A set of Clicker 5 grids on food. Read, hear stories and write about different kinds of food. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Listening Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension, – retelling or restating Writing: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of food and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about food. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the food category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This game of Go Fish is designed for students who are non-verbal or have weak verbal skills. It promotes categorical skill development as objects to be found are organized by category: food, animals, vehicles, toys, people, clothes, body, places, nature, furniture, kitchen, letters, numbers and money. Cards for this game are provided in a PDF file. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This set of 39 graphic organizers can be used with Kurzwel's reading and study skills tools to support writing in many subject areas. Some of the organizers are: Story map, time line, cluster word web, ladder, 5 W's. You can have students add text notes , voice notes, sticky notes to elaborate on their ideas. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Grade 4 Writing & Representing (Strategies) - select and use strategies before writing and representing, including – setting a purpose – identifying an audience – selecting a genre and form from samples provided – developing class-generated criteria based on analysis of the form of writing or representing – generating, selecting, developing, and organizing ideas from personal interest, prompts, models of good literature, and/or graphics Submitted by Jane Rondow

This Hair book was written for a teenage cognitively young reader who is learning a limited set of sight vocabulary. It is based on the principles put forward by Caroline Musselwhite. These include the use of repetition words and of form, use of rhyme, rhythm and humour. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing) Kindergarten Grade 1: - reading for enjoyment. - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode and recognizean increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Yvonne Green.

In this cause and effect activity, the student clicks the mouse to add pictures to a halloween ghost picture. Completion is reinforced with a ghost sound. Created by Kathy Ryan.

A simple witing grid on trains with repetitive sentence starter "I like". The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts (Writing and Representing Purposes) Grade 1: create staightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring - ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic - developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other - developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details - developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality. Created by Sharon O'Dornan.

Grade 1 - In this simple talking book gridset, the student can read about sports. The print is reinforced by animated symbols and sounds to enhance comprehension. This gridset is appropriate for students with emerging literacy skills.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLO for Grade 1 Language Arts Writing and Representing:- create imaginative writing and representations, often modelled on those they have read, heard, or viewed, featuring ideas represented through sentences and images that generally connect to a topic sentence fluency by using simple sentences, dialogue, phrases, and poetic language word choice by attempting to use new and descriptive words voice by showing some evidence of individuality organization that generally follows a form presented or modelled by the teacher; stories include a beginning, middle, and end. Created by Kathy Ryan

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to build sentences about school. Each page shows a model sentence about school that can then be constructed using the words underneath. Two pages are set up for creating sentences using choices from a pop-up. There is a labeling activity at the end - labeling some things in a classroom. The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts( Writing and Representing Purposes) Grade 1: -create staightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring - ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic - developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other - developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details - developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality Created by Daphne Mercier.

This Clicker Activity uses animation and song to engage the early learner. The student experiences sequencing as each grid of the activity shows a different action related to the Itsy Bitsy Spider. Created by John Cloutier.

Grade 3. This is a journal writing word bank and popup onscreen keyboard for students who access writing with a mouse. Created by Yvonne Green

A colour recognition activity with a St. Patrick's Day theme. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Literacy Foundations (2010) helps to demonstrate enhanced vocabulary knowledge and usage by: experimenting with language (e.g., attempt to pronounce or use new words, use simple sound patterns such as rhyming to learn new words, engage in conversations); using newly learned vocabulary (e.g., after listening to new vocabulary in stories and instruction, after listening to words used in multiple contexts to understand their use); beginning to use descriptive words to describe own feelings and the feelings of others; using words to describe people, places, and things (e.g., size, colour, shape, location, actions); classifying objects, pictures, and words (e.g., people, places, things, shapes, colours, foods) and discussing similarities, differences, and names of categories; with support, planning and presenting short dialogues. Created by Scott McKay.

A Clicker grid set of a St.Patrick's Day poem with a middle sentence in each grid and scrambled word cells to re-create the poem in Clicker Writer. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Kindergarten Prescribed Learning Outcome for Grade 1 English language Arts (Writing & Representing Features) grade 1: -use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including -complete simple sentences. Created by Nedra Post. [Holidays and Seasons]

In this errorless activity, the student hears an animal name and is required to click on the picture that matches. There are 2 pictured objects. Only the correct answer allows the student to move to the next question. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts- (Speaking & Listening) Kindergarten Grade 1: demonstrate auditory discrimination and orally manipulate sounds in words (i.e., use phonological awareness) Created by Kathy Ryan.

In this errorless activity, the student hears a vehicle name and is required to click on the picture that matches. There are 2 pictured objects. Only the correct answer allows the student to move to the next question. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Speaking & Listening) Kindergarten Grade 1: demonstrate auditory discrimination and orally manipulate sounds in words (i.e., use phonological awareness) Created by Kathy Ryan. [transportation]

The student makes a booklet showing the steps in making Easter eggs. The student uses time-sequence words. The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 2: -use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including – complete simple sentences, – generally correct noun-pronoun and subject-verb agreement – past and present tenses. Created by Linda Calliou. [Holidays and Seasons]

Using this Classroom Suite 4 template, teachers can now create simple modeled sentence activities where the student copies a sentence using buttons for each word. Created by Scott McKay.

This grid has been created for students with low or limited literacy skills as it provides a very structured writing environment with a few options for individual choices. Its rationale is to allow all students to participate in any Mother's Day celebrations by writing their mother a poem. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1 Grade 2: -use strategies before writing and representing, including – setting a purpose – identifying an audiences. Created by John Cloutier. [Holidays and Seasons]

This grid set is designed to give students tools to create a tribute to their mother. On the title page students can use the regular keyboard to type their own name, or student names can be added to the pop up grid making input easy. Some suggestions are given for sentence endings but space is available for teams to add their own adjectives. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Neda Post. [Holidays and Seasons]

Grade 1. This is an early literacy project using the carrier phrase "Mr. Potato has..." The project provides 6 interactive activities for stamping, word matching, labeling, word scramble, and writing using a word bank. Created by Yvonne Green

A set of Clicker 5 grids on music. Read, hear stories and write about different kinds of musical instruments. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts ( Speaking and Listening) Grade 1: -recognize the structures and patterns of language in oral texts, – structural sequencing cues Created by Daphne Mercier.

A spelling activity template with five words and pictures created in Classroom Suite 4. To change this activity and add your own words and pictures: - Control click each picture, - Click the pink flower to find your own pictures - Control click the word, click ok, then you can type a new word - Save your changes and publish your new activity This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Scott McKay.

This is a simple writing task to start the day. The student makes a list of the activities that are to be accomplished. It is intended that this be printed and checked off as the day progresses. There is a companion 'My Day - Writing' which is to be completed at the end of the day. This supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts: Kindergarten: - Create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. Grade 1: - create straightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of things from nature and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about nature. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the nature category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This activity introduces northern BC animal words with 4 word and 4 writing activities. Created by Carol Graham. grade4

This resource contains a powerpoint presentation with images and music ( wheels on the bus, nursery rhymes etc.) Created by John Cloutier. [Cause and Effect]

There are two versions of the Clicker 5 GRID SET for Nutrition. If your student was just learning to use Clicker last year or is a beginning writer, use the Beginner grid. If your student was fairly proficient with Clicker last year and is using it to write short sentences use the Advanced grid. Write a story about healthy eating. Created by Joanne McCartney.

There are two versions of the Clicker 5/6 GRID SET for the OLYMPICS. If your student was just learning to use Clicker last year or is a beginning writer, use the "for All" grid. If your student was fairly proficient with Clicker last year and is using it to write short sentences use the "for Most" grid. Write a story about the Olympics. Created by Joanne McCartney.

A set of Clicker 5 grids exploring people at school. Read, hear stories and write about different people at school and what they do.This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of people and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about people. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the people category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for students with emergent reading and writing skills. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Kindergarten, Grade 1. A set of Clicker 5 grids on pets . Read, hear stories and write about pets. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Listening Strategies: listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension, – retelling or restating – following two-step instructions – asking questions for clarification and understanding – sharing connections made. Learning Outcomes for Life Science (Characteristics of Living Things) Grade 1: -compare common animals. (Animal Growth & Changes) -classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences in appearance, behaviour, and life cycles Created by Daphne Mercier.

This Pet book was written for a teenage cognitively young reader who is learning a limited set of sight vocabulary. It is based on the principles put forward by Caroline Musselwhite. These include the use of repetition words and of form, use of rhyme, rhythm and humour.This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Listening Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate:comprehension, retelling or restating, following two-step instructions, asking questions for clarification and understanding; Reading and Viewing: reading for enjoyment. Created by Yvonne Green.

In this Phonics gridset, the student is required to select the letter that begins the two words presented visually and pictorially. The student's responses are recorded in the Writer for teacher examination and can be printed at the end of the session. Positive feedback for accurate answers is provided using the targeted letter. Ryan. This activity follows the Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Grades 2-3 It is expected that students will develop repertoires of skills and strategies to use as they anticipate, predict, and confirm meaning while reading, viewing, and listening. Use an expanding range of strategies including pictorial, graphic, structural, and phonics clues to derive meaning. Created by Kathy Ryan. grade2

Clicker 5 book on Let's Make Pizza. This reading activity is modeled after Carolynn Musselwhite's ideas of high interest , age appropriate for teens, repetition and very few words. Students can also record their own voices. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts ( Speaking and Listening): -recognize the structures and patterns of language in oral texts, including – word families – root words – rhyme – structural sequencing cues Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading & Viewing): read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate information texts Created by Yvonne Green.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of places and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about places. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the places category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for students with emergent reading and writing skills. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. This is a collection of 15 gridsets for practising spelling. Students are provided with a variety of accessible primary spelling activities. Each gridset focuses on words starting with a different consonant. The gridsets are based on the format in "Practise Your Spelling Skills" by John Rose. Download one consonant at a time or a folder with all consonant activities. These activities support the BC Ministry of Education PLO for Grade 1 English Language Arts: knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words. Created by Kim Robb.

There are two versions of the Clicker 5 GRID SET for Recycling, for All students and for Most students. Write a story about the helping planet Earth by recycling. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcome for Physical Science ( Properties of Objects and Materials): -describe ways to rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle. It consists of a reading and writing activity. Students read a simple book explaining the three R's of recycling. In the writing activity, they are given an event to identify as an example of reducing, reusing, or recycling. Students click on words to make a simple sentence. Created by Joanne McCartney.

There are two versions of the Clicker 5 grid set for ROCK STARS, and a Word Bank grid that students can use later when writing their own stories. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 3: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations Created by Joanne McCartney.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of school things and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about school things. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the school things category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken.This gridset is appropriate for emergent readers and writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This early reading task requires the student to match 6 pictures with 6 words with the same beginning sound containing short vowels. The following initial sounds are targetted: s, h, r, b, and d. TThis activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Kindergarten Prescribed Learning Outcome for English Language Arts W(riting & Representing Features) Grade 1 Grade 2: -use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words. Created by Kathy Ryan. [letters, early reading]

Students are asked to take the challenge and find the word. You can create a list of custom words, and also have a choice of using PrePrimer, Primer, !st Grade, 2nd Grade, or 3rd Grade words. Students also have a choice of how many questions to answer and how many choices on a page. Created by Scott McKay. This activity upports the B.C.Curriculum Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing) Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3: recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words.

Practice reading sight words using the classic game of 'Simon Says'.The Simon Says Sight Words activity has 10 prePrimer dolch words. Instructions on how to play and how to change words are included.This activity also supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing) Grade 1: - recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words Created by Scott McKay and Shel Harris.

This Clicker grid set has 3 levels of activities to choose from. Levels one and two are geared towards sight word recognition while level three focuses more on writing dvelopment using a set vocabulary. All levels focus on learning and reinforcing "body part concepts" by examining the more common body parts addressed in early years. Levels two and three may be modified by removing picture support in the writing phase to increase the level of difficulty for students. Each level supports the next to allow for a flow of skill/concept develoment throughout this activity. Implementation ideas included.This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1 Grade 2 : - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by John Cloutier.

In this project, spelling words can be sorted into groups. There are two activities: first, the student practises with immediate feedback on accuracy and then the student can take a sorting test. The current set of words explore the long "e" sound ( ea and ee) and the short "e" sound. However, this project can easily be adapted with a student's current list of words. Created by Kathy Ryan and Kim Robb.

This phonics sorting task requires the student to sort words into long or short vowel sounds. Letters a, e , i o, u are targeted. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Kindergarten Prescribed Learning Outcome for English Language Arts W(riting & Representing Features) Grade 1 Grade 2: -use some features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words. Created by Kathy Ryan. [early reading]

Elementary grades: This templates is a series of projects focusing on beginning letters for spelling words. This spelling unit has 8 different activities that the teacher can use to support students with their spelling of words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. This is a spelling project for CVC words starting with "m," "n," "p," "r," and "s." Students can practise these words in a variety of tasks including listening to the word in a sentence, fill in the blank, matching and sorting by vowel. They can take a test on spelling these words independently. This project was built in collaboratively by Lia Monro (SD23 parent) and Kathy Ryan.

A spelling quiz of 10 spelling words (cat, dog,etc.}. An Intellitalk 3 activity that gives the student a 10 second word prompt and then asks them to spell the word. It works well as a template. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations.

This activity is used to make a 10 question spelling quiz with picture support for the word to be spelled. The Picture library needs to be visable at the bottom of the screen. Click on the Picture Library button. You can edit the word the learner is to spell by selecting the picture in the sentence (example: "Spell the word ) and replacing the picture of the Calf with a picture from the Picture library at the bottom of the screen, the "Picture Options - Appearance" is set to picture only. Remember if you <Right Click> the picture you can change the label of the picture. You will need to enter the correct spelling of the word for the picture in the answer field. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Shel Harris.

This is a 10 question spelling quiz. The word the learner is to spell is in place but the text color of the word has been changed to white text so the learner cannot see the word they are asked to spell as the sentence is read. The toolbar "Spell the Word Page view" is on the start up screen but will "Hide" when the Blue Page view button of the tool bar is selected. You can edit the words the learner is asked to spell. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Shel Harris.

This is a template for a simple spelling test that provides the student with an opportunity to take a spelling test using Clicker 5. 1. Open the cell properties box and use the Sound and Video tab to enter each spelling word in the individual numbered cells. (See the examples.) Choose... - "Play recorded sound or video..." and record in the word and sentence using the word or - "Speak or play this..." and type in the word and a sentence using the word. 2. Include a picture for comprehension. 3. Each numbered cell has a pop-up associated with it. Type the correctly spelled word and 2 distractors into the pop-ups. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1, grade 2. This is a simple writing activity about sports using some phrases to create sentences based on Caroline Musselwhite 's adapted stories for emergent readers [www.adaptedstories.com]. The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes or English Lanuage Arts( Writing and Representing Purposes) Grade 1 Grade 2: create staightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring - ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic - developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other - developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details - developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of sports and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about sports. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the sports category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. This is a simple writing activity about sports based on Caroline Musselwhite 's adapted stories for emergent readers [www.adaptedstories.com]. The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts( Writing and Representing Purposes) Grade 1: -create staightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring - ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic - developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other - developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details - developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality Created by Daphne Mercier.

There are two versions of the Clicker 5 GRID SETvacation activities during Spring Break. Write a story about Spring Break vacation. Created by Joanne McCartney.

This Clicker grid set is a cloze activity for spring. It is for students with beginning literacy skills who are able to listen to a poem and then choose the appropriate missing words from the limited choices. This grid gives auditory support to the student both prior to making a choice as well as after. In this way they can listen to see if their selection makes sense. Adding additional word choices to the pop up grids or removing the image support can increase the level of difficulty. The concepts of 'on, in , and near' are also addressed. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Listening Strategies) Grade 2 Grade 3: - listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension, – retelling or restating – following two-step instructions – asking questions for clarification and understanding – sharing connections made. Created by John Cloutier. [ Holidays and Seasons, prepositions]

Using sentence starters, a bank of descriptions, and connecting words, students can write simple sentences about animated pictures they send to Clicker Writer. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Elementary English Language Arts (Writing: Representing ) Grade 2 Grade 3 : - create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic -developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns. Created by Nedra Post.

A spelling activity created in Classroom Suite 4 using words with a St. Patrick's Day theme. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Scott McKay.

In this phonics activity, the student is presented with a pictured word and asked to fnd which of the r blends the word begins with (br, dr, cr, fr, tr, gr, and pr).This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory Created by Kathy Ryan.

These word banks provide substitute words for overly used words in the English language. Supports writing in grade 3 and up. Created by Marlene Woodfin.

Read and write about your favourite SuperHeroes. There are two versions of the Clicker 5 GRID SET for SUPERHEROES, and a Word Bank grid that students can use later when writing their own stories. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Daphne Mercier.

This Clicker grid set is based on the book, "The Amazing Adventures of Ulysses" retold by Vivian Webb and Heather Amery ( Usborne Young Readers). The grid includes a summary of the story (read) and two writing activities. The first write is "questions'" about the characters. The second write, "with words" is a word bank with suggestions on how to write a paragraph. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Grade 4 (Reading): -read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate literary texts (e.g., stories, legends, poems). -Use a variety of strategies during reading and viewing to develop understanding construct , monitor and confirm meaning: making connections; determining the importance of ideas / events. Created by Irene Ennis.

Grade 1, grade 2. In this gridset, the student will learn and label the things that students do at school. In the Reading sequence, the student can read a short story with this vocabulary. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the "Things I Do at School" category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent readers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

A ClassroomSuite 4 Activity. Using this template, teachers can now create simple question and answer activities where the student chooses from three answers. This template was adapted from" Two Choice" and was created by Scott McKay.

A set of Clicker 5 grids on transportation . Read, hear stories and write about different kinds of transportation. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Listening Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension: retelling or restating, following two-step instructions, asking questions for clarification and understanding. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Type It Out is a Classroom Suite 4 activity that uses an onscreen keyboard to type out words; in this case, the topic is family . Letters of the word to be spelled are highlighted in yellow and the letters not needed don't work. You click on the picture to hear the word. There are instructions to change the activity to add your own words and pictures. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 1 Grade 2: – knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one-syllable words – spelling phonically irregular high-frequency words from memory – attempting to spell unknown words through phonic knowledge and skills and visual memory -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Scott McKay.

This set of four grids is designed for children to write a Valentine day poem. Four choices of difficulty are provided. In grid 1 clicking on cells in sequence produce the poem in a simple way. Grid 4 involves matching correct phrases from memory, and considering rhyme. This version includes using the correct number as a representation of the number word in the poem. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing & Representing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create imaginative writing and representations, often modelled on those they have read, heard, or viewed, featuring – ideas represented through sentences and images that generally connect to a topic – developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, dialogue, phrases, and poetic language – developing word choice by attempting to use new and descriptive words – developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality. Created by John Cloutier and Nedra Post. [Holidays and Seasons]

There are two versions of the Clicker 5 GRID SET for Valentine's Day, one for most beginning writiers and one for some beginning writiers. Read then write a story about Valentine's Day. Created by Joanne McCartney.

This Valentines Spelling activity is for Grade 1, Grade 2 - Using an onscreen keyboard, where the letters you don’t need are disabled, type the following Valentines Vocabulary words: love, hug, candy, flowers, valentine. This activity runs in Classroom Suite 4; created by Scott McKay.

This Clicker 5 grid set is designed to teach students six vocabulary words associated with Valentine's Day. In the first grid students explore and learn words, in the second grid they match the picture to the word and in the last six grids in the set they create simple "I see..." sentences by choosing a picture and the corresponding sentence. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning. Created by Kerry Randle. [Holidays and Seasons] grade1 grade2

This CoWriter SE Topic Dictionary has 46 vocabulary words associated with Valentine's Day. Words such as Valentine, heart, cupid, chocolate, flowers, devotion, love and saint are included. Place file in CoWriter Topic Dictionary folder to use (C:\DonJohnston\Cowriter\Topics). Supporting files are also included with instructions on how to create and import a wordlist in Kurzweil, how to save and share a topic dictionary in CoWriter and how to create topic lists in WordQ. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 3 : - create a variety of representations - word choice by using some new and precise words including content-specific vocabulary Created by Kerry Randle.

Grade 1, 2. This set of projects is designed to give beginning readers and writers practise with making words in the vowel word families. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This is a Forced Order activity with animated images. It is based on a simple, repeating sentence structure and action words. It supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Gr. 1 Language Arts: 1. Use the features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including: – complete simple sentences – declarative sentence type – correct subject-verb agreement – present tenses – noun and pronoun agreement – punctuation at the end of sentences – new words from their oral language and reading experiences – legible print – spacing words and sentences consistently on a line and page Created by Daphne Mercier.

This is a Forced Order activity with animated images. It is based on a simple, repeating sentence structure and action words. It supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Gr. 1 Language Arts: 1. Use the features and conventions of language to express meaning in their writing and representing, including: – complete simple sentences – declarative sentence type – correct subject-verb agreement – present tenses – noun and pronoun agreement – punctuation at the end of sentences – new words from their oral language and reading experiences – legible print – spacing words and sentences consistently on a line and page Created by Daphne Mercier.

In this errorless learning gridset using Winter Olympics theme, the student reads a sport label and finds the corresponding picture to add a piece to a hidden picture. Click the pictures key to find the corresponding picture. Created by Kathy Ryan.

In this grid set students are asked to find "-an", "-at", "-it", "-ar", "-in" words and a picture of the word will appear if spelling is correct. Created by Jinder Dhami. This activity supports the B.C. Grade1-3 Curriculum Learning Outcomes: recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words.

In this gridset, the student reads a 3 letter word and matches it to one of 3 pictures. Supports the B.C. Grade1-3 Curriculum Learning Outcomes: recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words. Created by Susan Rampone.

This Intellitalk 3 activity gives students practice at using daily words in a sentence context. This sample activity focuses on the word (READ). The folder also includes a template that can be adapted for daily use. Works well with single switch scanning. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1 Grade 2 : - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. This activity may also be suitable for students in middle and secondary levels.

This is a template for you to create your own word unscramble activities. 1. Choose Save Grid Set As and change the title to reflect your activity. 2. Don't forget to change the title on the start page. 3. Enter a scrambled word on each page, deleting cells or pages if necessary. 4. Add pictures to the hints page. Created by Mallory Burton.

This grid set is designed to help students write about hockey. Vocabulary words specific to the game of hockey are introduced and supported by the use of PCS symbols and pictures. Motivational sounds have been added. This grid set focuses on the Vancouver Canucks hockey team. It would be enjoyed by students at any grade level. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Heather Mary Campbell.

This Clicker Grid Set enables pupils to make their own on-screen book about the farm using sign language symbols. Each page contains a picture and a words pop-up, enabling pupils to write about things found on the farm. Pupils can read a ready-made version of the book using the set At the Farm - Read. Write the author's name in the empty cell on the cover. Click on the pop-up buttons to write text and to record voice. Created by Laura McInroy.

This is a Listen and Find activity to help students learn to recognize the Days of the Week using sign language symbols It supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcome for Math Grade 2/3: Shape and Space(Measurement): read and write the date, including the days of the week and use the abbreviations and names of the months of the year in order. Adapted by Laura McInroy.

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to build sentences about chickens and their life cycle using sign language symbols. Each page shows a modelsentence about the chicken that can then be constructed using the words underneath. Adapted by Laura McInroy.

This Clicker Grid Set enables students to illustrate and build sentences about school activities using sign language symbols. Each grid contains a model sentence, a bank of words, and a picture cell. Students construct each sentence using the words and use Clicker Paint to paint a picture for each sentence. Click on the pop-up buttons to paint a picture and to see the model sentence. Created by Laura McInroy.

These activities provide practice in recognizing and categorizing situations that elicit the feelings: - happy, sad, mad, scared while practising sign language. Adapted by Laura McInroy.

A set of Clicker 5 grids on Zoo animals . Read, hear stories, and write about zoo animals. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts- (Listening Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: -listen for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension, – retelling or restating – following two-step instructions – asking questions for clarification and understanding Learning Outcomes for Life Science (Characteristics of Living Things) Grade 1: -compare common animals. (Animal Growth & Changes) -classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences in appearance, behaviour, and life cycles Created by Daphne Mercier.

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to build sentences about chickens and their life cycle. Each page shows a model sentence about the chicken that can then be constructed using the words underneath. This activity supports the BC Grade 2 curriculum Learning Outcomes: Classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences in appearance, behaviour, and life cycles. This activity also supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grade K-1 English Language Arts (Writing): -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning Created by Amy Fleming.

These three templates are for intended for teachers who wish to adapt novels and short stories at three levels: All, Most and Some. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1. In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "Australian Animals " in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing sentences in the "I understand" forced choice gridset 2) identifying the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identifying sounds (k, gl, pl, dr, tr) from a field of five in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practicing writing words ending in "ot", "ill", "ank" and "ump" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "In the Grass" in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing a forced order sentence completion task in the "I understand" gridset 2) identifying the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identifying sounds from a field of five sounds in the "Sounds" gridset (n, sn, fr, gr and sl) 4) practising writing words ending in "in", "op" and "ake" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

In these integrated grid sets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "In the Sea" by Alison Jarred and Nadja Roelofs in the Intellitools Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing forced choice sentences in the "I understand" gridset 2) identifying the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identifying sounds (s, j, d, w) from a field of four letters in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practising writing words ending in "et", "ock" and "ip" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "Bedtime at the Farm " in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing sentences in the "I understand" gridset 2) identify the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identify sounds from a field of four letters (g, h, p,m) in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practice writing words ending in "ay", "en" and "ig" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

A grid to review or comment on a book or story. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading Strategies) Grade 2: - read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate literary texts (e.g., stories, legends, poems) Writing & Representing: - use writing and representing to express personal responses and opinions about experiences or texts.

Grade 5. These .kesi files are a retelling of the original book by Katherine Patterson using fewer words and simpler language. There are of two types of files: one with bubble notes added and one without. Retold by Kathy Ryan.

A Halloween writing activity. Build sentences using Halloween items, size, colour then take a quiz. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Included in this activity are two variations of the Build Vocabulary template in Classroom Suite 4 Reading. One template includes floating "Add Word " and "Delete word" buttons and one contains the same buttons in a toolbar so that the student can add and delete wods to build a growing vocabulary bank. Import it into the Published folder and then assign it to the student. The student can then use the "Save" tool to save the activity into their "My Work" folder. Whenever they open up this activity they will be able to add new words. English Language Arts Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Grade 4: Please download then unzip activity on your desktop before importing this activity into ClassroomSuite4. May be suitable for middle grades also. Created by Daphne Mercier. grade2 grade3 grade 4 grade 5

In this sentence building activity studens can explore vocabulary and make short sentences. Created by Carol Graham.

In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "By the Shore " in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing sentences in the "I understand" forced choice gridset 2) identifying the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identifying sounds (sh, cl, st, cr, pr) from a field of five in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practicing writing words ending in "ore", "ell", "ash" and "ide" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This Clicker Grid Set is a unit of activities designed to support Early Learners who are learning about the Vancouver Canucks Hockey team, focusing on the 2010-11 team. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts( Reading and Viewing Purposes) Grade 3 Grade 4: -read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate texts, and game rules. Created by Lisa Chambers and Susan Thompson and Daphne Mercier. Modified by Victoria Baker and Daphne Mercier.

This activity provides supports students who are writing about current events, the Vancouver Canucks or who are working on journal writing. Created by Nedra Post.

A reading activity about the Vancouver Canucks hockey team, supported by a short quiz. May also be suitable for students in middle and secondary level. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Reading and Viewing (Purposes ) Grade 3 : -read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate literary texts( eg.stories). Created by Daphne Mercier. [Canada, British Columbia, Sports]

Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7 and up. This a novel studies template activity for the student who is learning about story parts. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations(2010): Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing) and for grades 3-7 English Language Arts (2006): Reading and Writing(Purposes). *Pop-up word banks should be filled out ahead of time by a teacher, support worker, or peer, in collaboration with the student. Created by Jane Rondow

Classroom Suite activities for Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. Please download then unzip activity on your desktop before importing this activity into ClassroomSuite4. The Activities Unit includes: building simple sentences, building comprehension, errorless writing, left right exercise, and puzzles. The Chapters Unit contains chapter summaries with questions. English Language Arts Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Grade 4: -Select and use strategies before reading and viewing to develop understanding of text: Making predictions. -Use a variety of strategies during reading and viewing to develop understanding construct , monitor and confirm meaning: making connections; determining the importance of ideas / events. Created by Bruce Fraser with additional chapters by Elaine Proska.

Grade 4. This Clicker Grid Set is a unit of activities designed to support Early Learners who are learning about the novel, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White. These activities support the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for - Grade 4 English Language Arts. Created by SET-BC.

Grade 4. This is a retelling of Charlotte's Web for students who require fewer words. This activity is intended to support some students.It includes the same number of chapters as the original book, but each chapter is told in 2 pages. Each page has built-in navigation. Some pages have highlighted words with pop-up definitions. Charlotte's Web is on the recommended novels list for the BC Ministry of Education - Grade 4 English Language Arts. Adapted by Daphne Mercier

Grade 4. These .kesi files are a retelling of the original book by E.B. White using fewer words and simpler language. There are of two types of files: one with bubble notes added and one without. Retold by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 4 and early readers. This is an adaptation of the novel, "Charlotte's Web" retold with very few words. This activity is intended to support all students in English Language Arts. Charlotte's Web is a BC Ministry of Education recommended novel for English Language Arts - grade 4. Adapted by Daphne Mercier.

This is a simplified retelling of Charlotte's Web for students who require an adapted version. It is intended that most students would be able to use this activity. Charlotte's Web is one of the recommended novels for the BC Grade 4 English Language Arts curriculum. Adapted by Daphne Mercier

Grade 3, grade 4. This is a topic dictionary for CoWriter for students studying the novel, "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White. Created and donated by BridgesCanada.

This is a multiple choice, picture supported activity designed to complement "Charlotte's Web for Most." This activity supports grade 4 Language Arts curriculum. Created by Set-BC.

Chinese New Year writing activity .This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1 Grade 2: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created in Intellitalk by Carol Graham. [Holidays and Seasons]

Grade 4. These .kesi files are a retelling of the original book by Robert Kimmel Smith using fewer words and simpler language. There are of two types of files: one with bubble notes added and one without. Retold by Terry Betts.

This activity is a basic sentence writing activity on a Christmas theme, using a model sentence and words in cells that send to Clicker Writer. This activity uses PCS symbols. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Daphne Mercier. [Holidays and Seasons]

In this activity, which includes Christmas objects, the numbers 1-5, size and quizzes, the student can build sentences and answer questions. Ctreated by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of clothes and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about clothes. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the clothes category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent readers and writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. In this gridset, the student will learn to recognize and label colours and clothing. In the writing sequence, the student will write short sentences about different coloured clothing. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four colour words are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent readers and writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This descriptive word bank is a non-closing version of the same descriptive word bank. It is called by the same name, with an ‘a’ added at the end per clicker’s convention. Also the first page has a different background colour to easily recognize the closing word bank from the non-closing word bank. This word bank offers students suggestions for descriptive writing. Words are organized in the following groups: People, Places, Things, Feelings, Actions, and My Favourite Words alphabetically. Instructions to load: On a PC C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Clicker 5\_Resources\Word Banks On a Mac \Users\shared\Crick Software\Clicker 5 Files\_resources\Word BanksTo open the word bank, then go to options ? user preferences ? writing and choose it If one wants to change the word bank, they need to remember to choose ‘file’ ? ‘save word bank’ or ‘save word bank as’ (this option is only available when the word bank is open.) Created by Suzanne Harwood.

This word bank offers students suggestions for descriptive writing. Words are organized in the following groups: People, Places, Things, Feelings, Actions, and My Favourite Words alphabetically. After downloading this file, copy it to the shared documents folder on the computer. Instructions for loading: For a PC, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Clicker 5\_Resources\Word Banks\ For a Mac go to: \Users\Shared\Crick Software\Clicker 5\_resources\Word BanksSelect the new word bank in Clicker 5 by going to: 'Options' --> 'user preferences' --> 'writing'. If you edit the word bank, go to' file' --> 'save word bank' before closing the current grid set. Created by Suzanne Harwood.

In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "Dogs Make Good Friends " in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing sentences in the "I understand" forced choice gridset 2) identifying the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identifying sounds (sp, y, br and wh) from a field of four in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practicing writing words ending in "ick", "aw", "ink", "ate"and "ame" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts ( Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 1. In this gridset, the student can learn Dolch Grade 1 words in an errorless learning "find the word" gridset. In the writing gridset, listen to the sentences to write. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Early Learners. This is a sequencing activity. In this activity students click on the prompted article of clothing to dress the girl in a princess costume. Vocabulary words used: shoes, dress, coat, crown, necklace. Paper doll and clothing images are from: http://www.makingfriends.Com/ Created by Lisa Watson and Daphne Mercier

Early Learners. In this Irish themed activity, students find and click on the correct words to dress the child in Irish party clothing. Vocabulary words used:dress, hat, bag, pig. Created by Daphne Mercier

This is a scaffolded writing activty for students to write about eagles. It would be enjoyed by students at any grade level. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 4: - sentence fluency through a variety of sentence lengths and patterns, with some emerging fluidity -word choice by experimenting with new, more powerful and varied words, especially descriptive words And also supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Social Studies Grade 4. - Distinguish characteristics of various Aboriginal cultures in BC and Canada. Created by Carol Graham.

This activity has 3 parts: 1. Read about eagles 2. Learn adjectives: majestic, boisterous, impressive, powerful, vigilant, industrious 3. Write about eagles using the adjectives This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing and Representing) Grade 4: - sentence fluency through a variety of sentence lengths and patterns, with some emerging fluidity -word choice by experimenting with new, more powerful and varied words, especially descriptive words And also supports the BC Ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Social Studies Grade 4. - Distinguish characteristics of various Aboriginal cultures in BC and Canada. Created by Carol Graham.

With this template build a unit of 8 activities to support an early learner. The template is intended to focus on a curriculum idea and present it in different ways to build in repetition. This template is a result of a project by SET- BC consultants.

This template is a unit of 12 activities in Clicker 5 designed to support Early Learners with curriculum study. The template can be used as is to fill in your own content or only parts of it can be used- tailoring it to the needs of your students. You will find completed units in curriculumSET. This template is the result of a projecct by SET - BC consultants and teams.

These 2 activities provide practice in recognizing and categorizing situations that elicit the feelings: happy, sad, mad, scared. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for: K-7 Fine Arts (Drama - Exploration and Imagination) K-1: demonstrate a willingness to express their feelings and ideas 2-3: describe their feelings and ideas to be used in a dramatic work 4: select feelings and ideas expressed in the group to use in dramatic work K-7 Fine Arts (Music - Thoughts, Images and Feelings) K-1: identify elements of expression that evoke thoughts, images, and feelings K-1: represent personal thoughts, images, and feelings experienced in classroom repertoire. Created by Yvonne Green. Kindergarten,Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to practice word-to-picture matching skills using eagle vocabulary. Each grid shows a target word and then a choice of two pictures, from which to select a match. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning This activity supports the BC ministry of Education Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Science Grade 4: Life Science - Compare the structures and behaviours of local animals and plants in different habitats and communities. Created by Carol Graham.

The student matches the same printed word of common fruits and vegetables with picture and speech support. The activity is errorless. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts( Reading & Viewing) Kindergarten Grade 1: -recognize and fluently identify all alphabetic letters and their associated sounds, and recognize word patterns and some high-frequency words. Created by Janne Perrin.

The novel, "Frindle" by Andrew Clements has been retold in simplified language by Heather Garrecht. There is an accompanying comprehension question page for independent novel study. Created by Heather Garrecht & Kathy Ryan.

Grade 4, grade 5. These .kesi and word files are a retelling of the original book by Jean Little using fewer words and simpler language. There are of two types of files: one with bubble notes added and one without. Retold by Kathy Ryan.

A Halloween story about a little girl seaching for the perfect pumpkin , not too big and not too small. Created by Linda Calliou. [Holidays and Seasons]

In this build sentences activity , the student can explore Halloween vocabulary, make short sentences and practice answering questions. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to build sentences about Halloween time and choosing a costume. Each page shows a model sentence about Halloween that can then be constructed using the words underneath. This is a simple writing activity. This activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes in Grade 1 English Language Arts: Writing and Representing: Purposes: create straightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring – ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic – developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other – developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details – developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality Created by Daphne Mercier. [Holidays and Seasons]

Halloween activity; write about a mummy or monster in Classroom Suite 4. Created by Daphne Mercier.

In this writing activity, students can write two part sentences about Halloween. Created by Kathy Ryan.

Grade 2, grade 3, plus elementary grades, early learners and ESL. Halloween themed activity that introduces vocabulary words and definitions associated with Halloween. Created by SET-BC.

A Halloween multiple choice Clicker grid set. Created by Linda Calliou. [Holidays and Seasons]

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to build sentences about Halloween time. Each page shows a model sentence about Halloween that can then be constructed using the words underneath. This is a simple writing activity. This activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes in Grade 1 English Language Arts: Writing and Representing: Purposes: create straightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring – ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic – developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other – developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details – developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality Created by Daphne Mercier. [Holidays and Seasons]

Kindergarten, grade 1 and early learners. Halloween themed visual scene that introduces 5 vocabulary words. Created by SET-BC.

Grade 1, grade 2 and students who require writing support. Halloween themed writing grid with 12 word bank. Created by SET-BC.

Build sentences with haunted fun creatures and places in Classroom Suite 4. Created by Daphne Mercier.

This journal activity has been adapted for students with low vision.Created by Yvonne Green.

Journal starter created in Clicker 5 to support syudents in writing a letter to Santa. Created by Maureen LaFleche.

Grade 1, grade 2. This is a sequencing activity with a camping theme. Vocabulary words used: - log, campfire, tent, mom, dad, brother, big, little, sister. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1, grade 2 and other students. This is a sequencing activity with a travelling. Students chose the correct item and make a card. A final activity allows them to create their own. Voculary introduced in this activity: mom, dad, sister, brother, bag, purse, knapsack, backpack, luggage. The final page is a ClickerPaint acitivity which lets students create their own pictures using pictures from the activity. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1, grade 2 and other students. This is a sequencing activity with a Father's Day theme. Vocabulary words used: dad, girl, boy, sun, clouds, grass, flowers, butterfly, greeting. At the end there is a bonus activity for students to try stamping their own card using the parts from the activity.

Grade 1, grade 2 and other students. This is a sequencing activity with a Mother's Day and colour theme. Students chose the correct item and make a card. A final activity allows them to create their own. Voculary introduced in this activity: pink, purple, green, brown, blue, yellow, leaves, birds, greeting. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1, grade 2 and other students. This is a sequencing activity with a Mother's Day and colour theme. Students chose the correct item and make a card. A final activity allows them to create their own. Voculary introduced in this activity: pink, purple, green, brown, blue, yellow, leaves, birds, greeting. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1, grade 2. This is a sequencing activity with an Easter or spring theme. Vocabulary words used: paper, card, trim, ribbon, stripes, eggs, birds, greeting. At the end there is a bonus activity for students to try stamping their own card using the parts from the activity. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 1, grade 2, grade 3 and other students. This is a sequencing activity with a gardening theme. Vocabulary used: mom, dad, sister, brother, trowel, soil, box, watering can, seedlings, unpot, planting. A ClickerPaint activity is included at the end for students to create their own gardening picture. Created by Daphne Mercier

Grade 1, grade 2, grade 3 and other students. This is a sequencing activity with a family-watching-TV theme. Vocabulary used: mom, dad, sister, brother, big, little, popcorn, juice, sofa, TV A ClickerPaint activity is included at the end for students to create their own picture. Created by Daphne Mercier

Grade 1, grade 2, grade 3 and other students. This is a sequencing activity with a family-watching-TV theme. Vocabulary used: mom, dad, sister, brother, big, little, popcorn, juice, sofa, TV A ClickerPaint activity is included at the end for students to create their own picture. Created by Daphne Mercier

A Clicker 5 activity for matching uppercase letters to lowercase letters. Student chooses between a set of 4 to match the presented lowercase letter with it's uppercase match. Created by Lorraine Kamp.

In this gridset, the student can write simple sentences about Christmas. There is a picture-supported sentence starter and 4 to 6 sentence endings. This gridset is appropriate for beginning writers. The activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts( Writing and Representing Purposes) Grade 1: -create staightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring - ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic - developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other - developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details - developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality. Created by staff at Oliver Elementary School.

In this writing activity that can be done daily, the early learner is reinforcing calendar skills such as days of the week, months of the year, date, weather, seasons. In addition, the student assembles the scrambled letters into his or her name and chooses his or her feelings. This activity supports the Ministry of Education for English Language Arts (Writing) Grade 1: create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring – ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic – developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions – developing word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail – developing voice by showing how they think and feel about a topic. Created by Linda Caillou and updated for 2008 by Maureen LaFleche.

This is a simple Valentine's story talking book in Speaking Dynamically Pro. Created by Daphne Mercier. [Holidays and Seasons] grade 1

Kurzweil file for Macintosh with facts about bald eagles extracted from NatureMapping Animal Facts for Kids From: http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/facts/bald_eagle_k6.html This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing- Purposes ) Grade 4: read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate information texts, such as – non-fiction books – textbooks and other instructional materials – materials that contain diagrams, charts, illustrations, or graphs – reports and articles from newspapers and children’s magazines – reference material – web sites designed for children Life Science ( Habitats and Communities for Grade 4: - compare the structures and behaviours of local animals and plants in different habitats and communities Created by Carol Graham.

Kurzweil files (3) for Windows with facts about bald eagles extracted from NatureMapping Animal Facts for Kids From: http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/facts/bald_eagle_k6.html This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing- Purposes ) Grade 4: read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate information texts, such as – non-fiction books – textbooks and other instructional materials – materials that contain diagrams, charts, illustrations, or graphs – reports and articles from newspapers and children’s magazines – reference material – web sites designed for children Life Science ( Habitats and Communities for Grade 4: - compare the structures and behaviours of local animals and plants in different habitats and communities Created by Carol Graham.

In this set of Halloween grids, students can first read a story that shares the sights and sounds of Halloween; a writing task follows that checks for comprehension. The next structured writing task has students write about what they will dress up as on Halloween, as well as, what they expect to see and hear. The final writing task has students write about Halloween after the event. Created by Kathy Ryan.

This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to build sentences about Halloween. Each page shows a model sentence about school that can then be constructed using the words underneath. The activity is based on the In the Park Sentences activity from Learning Grids.Com This activity supports the BC Prescribed Learning Outcomes for English Lanuage Arts( Writing and Representing Purposes) Grade 1: -create staightforward personal writing and representations that express simple ideas, feelings, likes, and dislikes, featuring - ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic - developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences that relate to each other - developing word choice by attempting to use descriptive words and interesting details - developing voice by showing some evidence of individuality Created By Naomi Bradley.

Grade 4, grade 5. This is a simplified retelling of Owls in the Family for students who require a very minimum of words. It is intended that all students would be able to use this activity.This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education recommended novels for Grade 4 and 5 English Language Arts. Adapted by Bruce Fraser.

Grade 4, grade 5: This is a simplified retelling of the novel, "Owls in the Family" for students who require an adapted version. It is intended that most students would be able to use this activity. "Owls in the Family" is one of the recommended novels for the BC Grade 4 and 5 English Language Arts curriculum. Adapted by Bruce Fraser.

Grade 4, grade 5. This is a simplified retelling of "Owls in the Family" for some students who require fewer words."Owls in the Family" is one of the recommended novels for Grade 4 and 5 English Language Arts. Adapted by Bruce Fraser.

The poem, Please Wear A Poppy by Don Crawford is told with picture support. Each page odf the poem also contains word buttons with the story in simplied text. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Social Studies ( Canadadian identity ) Grade 3, Grade 4 Grade 5 grade 6 -Identify characteristics of Canadian society (e.g. Symbols of BC, Symbols of Canada) Created by Kathy Ryan.

This ClassroomSuite activity for early learners using the popular Pokemon cartoon characters. Students can explore activities such as: Read, Write, Match, What Am I, Stamps and Sorting. To import this activity, open Classroom Suite and go to Published Activites then Import. You will see the PokemonFolder, start with Home activity. Created by Suzanne Harwood.

In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "Quail Makes a Snack " in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing sentences in the "I understand" forced choice gridset 2) identifying the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identifying sounds (qu, v, sw, bl and fl) from a field of five in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practicing writing words ending in "ail", "ight", "ack", "ing", "ack" and "uck" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created By Kathy Ryan.

The classic Remembrance Day poem by John McRae, December 1915, is presented with visual and auditory supports. Students who have difficulties comprehending can explore the words buttons to assist them with understanding in simpler text. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Social Studies ( Canadadian identity ) Grade 3, Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 -Identify characteristics of Canadian society (e.g. Symbols of BC, Symbols of Canada). Created by Kathy Ryan.

All grades. A template to create SET-BC accessible books using the Boardmaker Studio program. Created by Daphne Mercier.

Elementary. This template uses the Photo Album feature of PowerPoint 2007 to make accessible books. The accompanying tutorial will explain how to use the template. The template is pre-designed to include action buttons: forward, back, home and stop. Created by Daphne Mercier.

This Clicker Gridset is suitable for the emergent writer and contains two parts: 1. The Read Section is a simple story book about Snowman Sizes. Vocabulary includes big, small, tall, short, fat, thin, large, huge, and tiny. 2. The Write Section consists of 10 pictures to write about. When the student selects a picture, a writing grid pops up. The free photos are from Flikr.Com Created by Mallory Burton.

Grade 1 and students with emergent reading skills. In this activity, the student uses a spinner to select a picture to match a printed word. There are 8 word-pictures matches to apage and the pages are organized by category. Frequent vocabulary has been chosen from the following categories: fruit, clothing, people, vehicles, animals. There is auditory feedback on the spinner and when the word is selected accuracy can be attained. Created by Kathy Ryan

This outline template can be used to guide story writing. The student selects and describes characters, setting, sequence of events, problem, and solution. Through the writing process built into Kurzweil, the student can move seamlessly from this outline view, to brainstorm, split screen and draft to complete their story. *To use this template, remember to open the Writing Toolbar and begin in Outline view. this template supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grades 2-7 Literacy Foundations English/Strategies/Thinking/Purposes of Writing: Created by Kim Robb & Rhonda Manning.

Grade 4, grade 5. This is a topic dictionary for CoWriter users who are studying the novel, "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume. Created and donated by BridgesCanada.

Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7 and up. This novel studies activity provides the student with an alternate means of representing their comprehension of books read or listened to. * A pop-up voice recorder allows the student to record their book report in sections and have it read back as one sound file. If the computer has a built in microphone the student can record directly from that, otherwise a headset with microphone can be used. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education PLOs for grade 3-4 Literacy Foundations(2010): Thinking(Writing) and Purposes(Writing) and for grades 3-7 English Language Arts (2006): Reading and Writing(Purposes). Created by Jane Rondow

A Thanksgiving Dinner Story (poem) created by Maude M. Grant and narrated by Daphne Mercier. [Holidays and Seasons]

A Clicker grid set that teaches Thanksgiving Dinner words. Created by Daphne Mercier. [Holidays and Seasons]

Grade 4. This is a simplified retelling of "The Family Under the Bridge" for students who require a very minimum of words. It is intended that all students would be able to use this activity. This activity supports novels for Grade 4, 5, 6, 7 English Language Arts. Novel adapted by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 4. This is a simplified retelling of "The Family Under the Bridge" for students who require a very minimum of words. It is intended that most students would be able to use this activity.This activity supports the novels for Grade 4, 5, 6, 7 English Language Arts. Adapted by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 4. This is a simplified retelling of "The Family Under the Bridge," by Natalie Savage Carlson, for some students who require fewer words.This is a novel for Grade 4, 5, 6, 7 English Language Arts. Adapted by Daphne Mercier.

Grade 5. This is a simplified retelling of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for students who require fewer words. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is one of the recommended novels for Grade 5 English Language Arts. Images for this adapted novel were taken from the Harper Collins children's version of the story, retold by Hiawyn Oram and illustrated by Tudor Humphries ISBN 0-06-055650-1. Adapted by Kathy McCauley

I have taken the original text and picture from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter amd made a Clicker book. This story is not copyrighted now and is in the public domain. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grade English Language Arts (Listening Strategies- Reading) Kindergarten Grade 1: read for enjoyment; use some comprehension and word-decoding strategies during reading and viewing to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including – predicting and making connections – visualizing – figuring out unknown words Created by Linda Calliou.

This Clicker Grid Set is a unit of activities designed to support Early Learners who are learning about the Vancouver Canucks Hockey team. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts( Reading and Viewing Purposes) Grade 3 Grade 4: -read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate texts, and game rules. Created by Lisa Chambers and Susan Thompson and Daphne Mercier.

This is a topic dictionary for CoWriter using students who are studying the novel, "The Witches" by Raold Dahl. Created and donated by BridgesCanada.

This is a topic dictionary for CoWriter using students who are studying the novel, "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitl. Created and donated by BridgesCanada.

The Christmas favourite "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Clement C. Moore as a talking book using images scanned from the original published book.This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Reading and Viewing) Grade 2 Grade 3: -read and demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate information texts - read and reread just-right texts independently for 10 to 15 minutes daily for enjoyment and to improve fluency and comprehension. This is a freely sharable book from the Gutenberg Free Press. Link for other searches http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/ Adapted by Daphne Mercier. [Holidays and Seasons]

These .kesi files are a retelling of the original book by William Pene du Bois using fewer words and simpler language. There are of two types of files: one with bubble notes added and one without. Retold by Kathy Ryan.

This simple Clicker 5 Grid set helps student create Valentine's cards for their family or peers. Students can select from six pictures and six different poems to create their own unique combinations. The grids can be printed two or four to a page for cutting and handing out on the big day. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for EnglishLanguage Arts (Writing Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Kerry Randle. [Holidays and Seasons]

Grade 1, grade 2. In the Label sequence, the student will learn the names of vehicles and recognize their labels. In the Write sequence, the student can write simple sentences about vehicles. The Words sequence is an errorless learning task in which four words within the vehicles category are presented in print. The student is to select the one that is spoken. This gridset is appropriate for emergent writers. Created by Kathy Ryan.

In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "Where are the Pets?" in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing sentences in the "I understand" gridset 2) identify the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identify sounds from a field of four letters in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practice writing words ending in "at" and "an" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

In these integrated gridsets, the student will demonstrate understanding of the story, "Wild Animals " in the Balanced Literacy Program by: 1) completing sentences in the "I understand" gridset 2) identifying the words in the story when they are presented verbally in a field of 4, errorless learning task in "My new words" 3) identifying sounds (t, l, ch, z) from a field of four letters in the "Sounds" gridset and 4) practising writing words ending in "ap", "it" and "ug" in the "Word families" gridset. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for elementary English Language Arts (Reading) Grade 1: - use knowledge of word patterns, word families, and letter-sound relationships to decode unknown words and recognize an increasing number of high-frequency words. Created by Kathy Ryan.

A set of Clicker 5 grids on the weather . Read, hear stories, and write about the weather. This activity supports BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Earth and Science (Daily &Seasonal Changes) Kindergarten Grade 1: -describe changes that occur in daily and seasonal cycles and their effects on living things. This activity supports BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts (Writing Strategies) Kindergarten Grade 1: -create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning -express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations. Created by Daphne Mercier.