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Picture-based activities for early learners

(Formerly known as Jigsaw 2)
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Jigworks is an amazingly flexible tool for creating and completing jigsaws, inset puzzles and much more! It offers a wide scope of both pre-reading and early reading activities, addressing skills from shape and picture matching up to early word-level reading skills.

Benefits

• Create your own activities with any picture in seconds
  You can make onscreen jigsaw activities in seconds using any picture – such as those from your digital camera. Simply choose a picture from your computer and choose how many pieces you want, from 4 to 64. You can even include sounds for when you start the jigsaw, when you complete it, and when you pick up and place a piece.

  You can also cut out pieces of the picture with our easy-to-use activity editor – these can be any shape or size. For early shape-matching activities, you can cut out simple shapes from a plain background, or cut out objects from a digital photograph. For early reading and writing exercises, you can add letters or words as pieces! You can make onset and rime activities, or puzzles where students piece together the letters of their name – and all supported by sound!

  Jigworks also comes with the Crick Picture Library, so you can compose your own pictures and cut out pieces automatically – and you can also use your own picture libraries.
  

• Pre-reading and early reading activities for all abilities
  Jigworks is not only suitable for early years, it is also ideal for older learners with special needs. You can move the pieces without having to hold the mouse button down.

  Jigworks activities are incredibly versatile. Many examples are included, and it’s very easy to create your own with our easy-to-use activity editor. Jigworks is supported by Crick Software’s free website of resources at www.LearningGrids.com/anz (over 70,000 registered teachers). The LearningGrids.com website provides over 200 more activities and other ready-made materials for use in your classroom. Just register on the site, view images of the resources, then simply click to download.

  You can create sets of related activities, so students can work independently through a whole set – or you can work as a group, using an interactive whiteboard or touchscreen monitor.

• Sound support
  Each piece can have its own sound, making Jigworks perfect for English language learners. See sample jigsaws

• Fully switch accessible for students with special needs
  Jigworks is switch accessible, for those who cannot use a mouse. Click here to read more about accessing Jigworks with switches.

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Use Jigworks For…

Jigworks can be used in many ways to support your early learners. Make activities using pictures, numbers or text to help them develop foundation skills for their literacy and number work.

• Onscreen jigsaws
  Onscreen jigsaws can be made in seconds using any picture. Pictures can be taken from the picture library of 1800 pictures included with the program, from other picture libraries, or from your digital camera. See sample jigsaw


• Shape matching
  Any picture or photograph can become a Jigworks activity. Simply open your picture and highlight the areas you want to make into pieces. Make activities using pictures of your school or your local area or to fit any topic in your classroom
  
  

  

  See sample jigsaws



• Early number skills
  Use number activities to practise number recognition and counting. Children can become familiar with numbers and can count the objects as they place them. Link activities for a sequence of counting pages. See sample jigsaw


• Personalised Word-level work
  Use digital photographs to create personal activities. Add text and the word or letters can be automatically made into pieces, so that children can learn to recognise and spell their name. See sample jigsaw


• Word building
  Children can become familiar with letter and word shapes as they complete activities using high frequency words. There are examples provided and it is quick and easy to create activities to reinforce the key vocabulary from your reading schemes. See sample jigsaw


• Sorting
  Jigworks activities can enhance any curriculum area. Activities like the sorting activity are provided with the program. See sample jigsaw

View the Jigworks Guide Slide-show at the Cricksoft.com website.

Jigworks’ Jigsaws

There are two kinds of jigsaw – interlocking and inset. Ready-made jigsaws of both types are included, and it is very easy to create your own. View the Jigworks Guide to creating a new activity

Interlocking jigsaws can be made in seconds using any picture. Pictures can be taken from the picture library of 1800 pictures included with the program, from other picture libraries, or from your digital camera. Simply choose the picture and say how many pieces you want the jigsaw to have (anything from 4 to 64). You can optionally include sounds to be played when the jigsaw is started, when it is completed, and when pieces are picked up and placed.

With a inset jigsaw, you can choose which pieces of the picture you want to cut out, and these can be any shape. You can cut out simple shapes from a plain background for early shape matching, or you can cut out objects from a digital photograph. You can even place symbols on top of a picture and cut out the symbols.

The text tool enables you to add text and automatically cut out individual letters, whole words, or parts of words to make your pieces. You can attach different sounds to each individual piece of your jigsaw (either use the sounds included, or record your own), so you can create wonderful early reading activities. For example, you can make onset and rime jigsaws, or puzzles where you piece together the letters of a child’s name, all supported by sound.

Jigsaws can be put together into sets, so that a student can work through a sequence of related activities. Children can work independently through the whole set, or you can work in a group, or even with the whole class, using an interactive whiteboard.

Now also available … Jigworks Training Booklet
This booklet shows how Jigworks can be used to create a wide variety of pre-literacy and early literacy activities to support learning across the whole curriculum. Click here for an inside view of Jigworks’ Training Booklet.

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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Jigworks - Additional User Licence	Available in Australia and New Zealand now. To be used on the same geographical site (school or organisation) as the first Jigworks purchased.
	bCSJIGAU	Paper Licence	Win 2000, Win XP, Win Vista, Windows 7	$9.99	$0.00
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	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Jigworks Training Booklet
	bCST-JIG	Book		$9.09	$0.91