Clicker Paint adds painting features to Clicker 5, offering a whole new range of learning opportunities. Once you install Clicker Paint, painting features are automatically added to your Clicker 5 installation, offering a whole new range of learning opportunities for learners of all abilities.

Drawing a picture is a perfect starting point to get children writing, and the ability to talk about their picture offers a natural lead into the writing process. Add in sentence building grids and you have a unique environment for writers to express themselves.

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1. Write your text

Students use Clicker’s sentence building grids to write into the talking book page, or type their text in from the keyboard.

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2. Draw your picture

Illustrate your page using Clicker Paint’s child-friendly tools. Closing the canvas transfers the picture to the page of your book.

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3. Record your voice

Read the text that you have written, or talk about the picture. Do the recording as many times as you like until you are happy with it.

Early writers can paint a picture to show the main idea, helping them to think about what they want to write.

They may paint pictures to illustrate anecdotal writing or paint several pictures in sequence, helping them to organise their ideas, and to develop an understanding of beginning, middle and end in story writing. Or of course they may simply want to paint a picture to illustrate their story and really enhance their finished work.

‘Myself’ activity

This Clicker Paint set encourages children to talk about themselves. They paint pictures to match captions and then record a commentary.

Each page contains a caption, prompting children to paint a picture of themselves and their possessions. On the final page children record a commentary about the pictures.

Students able to compose their own text can now create their own pictures too, enabling them to create an entire talking book independently.

Learners find this type of activity very motivating, and the finished book encourages your most reluctant writers to have a positive attitude towards writing.

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This Clicker Grid set is designed for students to write a description of different settings in winter and to illustrate their writing. Click on the pop-up buttons to use the word banks and to paint a picture.

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An alternative style of Clicker talking book allows children to add more to a picture to build a sequence. Starting their picture on page 1, they add some more to it on page 2, and so on.

This breaks up an activity into small steps, and helps children to create an extended piece of writing with detailed illustrations.

Clicker Paint helps develop speaking and listening skills using voice recording and spoken instructions. Where the learning focus is spoken language development, Clicker 5 with Clicker Paint provides stimulating activities that require no written text.

Students create their series of pictures and then use Clicker’s record button to add their own narration. Teachers may prepare the talking book in advance by adding spoken instructions to reinforce listening skills too.

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Use the reveal feature to slowly reveal who is hidden in the picture. Can your learners tell who it is? How do they know? A great activity for the interactive whiteboard, touch screen monitors and fantastic for language development.

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Students use the record button to talk about the pictures they have drawn, narrate their own version of an illustrated story or even read back words that have been provided in their Clicker talking book.

Early readers and writers use Clicker 5 with Clicker Paint to demonstrate their comprehension.

Students read the text and show understanding of the meaning by producing an appropriate illustration.

‘Roman Soldier’ activity

This Clicker Grid Set enables students to demonstrate their understanding about Roman soldiers. Each page contains a sentence about one part of the soldier’s uniform. Students use Clicker Paint to stamp each piece of clothing or equipment on the soldier outline. The picture builds as each piece is added. Students can add labels to their picture.

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Hundreds of activities, covering a range of curriculum areas.

Crick Software actively provides lots of free Clicker Paint activities at LearningGrids.com/ANZ, covering a range of curriculum areas.

For geography

Clicker Paint enables you to create your own stamps. Here, students create their own weather symbols, and then place them onto the map to create their own weather report.

For maths

Use Clicker Paint in your numeracy lessons. Use the fill tool to show an understanding of common fractions. Clicker Paint is great for symmetry too.

For science

Create a rainforest picture – stamp the animals on the background. Close the pop-up, and use Clicker to write or talk about the animals and their habitat.

For history

Use the ‘reveal’ feature to slowly reveal the object. Can your children tell if it’s old or new? A great whiteboard activity and fantastic for language development too.

More access to switch users than any other paint application

With Clicker Paint, switch users create their own illustrations. The tools and colours scan, and the canvas can contain any number of Sticky Points that are automatically scanned.

Some of our Clicker Paint activities only require one tool so all the others are removed, reducing the number of items to be scanned. Also, some activities begin with a fixed picture on a background, so the student does not have to start with a blank canvas.

Colouring and stamping activities are particularly successful with switches, giving users with disabilities access to creative activities not normally available to them.

Colouring activity

Switch users scan between the sticky points to colour the ladybird, using a minimum number of switch presses to complete the picture.

Stamping activity

Here, switch users select a sea creature, then scan the rows and columns of sticky points to position it on the canvas.

Read more about Clicker Paint – Paint with switches!

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows
  
  • Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 or later
• Macintosh
  
  • Operating System: OS X 10.4 – 10.6; not compatible with 10.7 “Lion”
    
  • Processor: PowerPC or Intel processor

Clicker Paint works with Clicker 5 for Windows or Mac, or stand-alone.

Networks Licensing

To purchase for a network, simply buy the single-user product, then add the number of additional user licences required (choose the 30-user bundle for best value). The CD includes a network installer, together with full instructions.