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Age-appropriate reading for reluctant readers aged 7 or older

Powered by Clicker - so this software requires that Clicker 5 or later is installed on the same computer

• No Place Like Home
  Nick and his friends are on a school trip to Earth when an alien spaceship lands. Will the aliens attack?
• Dragon Flight
  Rock dragons are coming to Zap City! Everyone has to leave! But Jen won’t go without Quackers, and Quackers won’t go at all. They are in great danger – can Quackers save the day?
• About Time
  What is the strange animal on the photo at the museum? The children go back in time to find out. Will they change history?
• The Cup Final
  It’s the Buzz Ball Cup Final but Mr Block takes Kaz and Slig off the team. Why did he do this? Can the team still win the Cup Final?

Overview of Trackers for Clicker

• Joint Crick Software and Oxford University Press publication for children aged 7+ who have a reading age of 5+
• Based on the outstanding fiction books from Oxford’s Trackers structured reading series
• Particularly suitable for struggling readers, reluctant readers, and for English Language Learners.

Benefits

Motivate struggling readers with age appropriate materials

Each Trackers for Clicker title includes four Trackers fiction books in an exciting, interactive on-screen format, plus a range of connected reading and writing activities. The stories provide struggling upper primary students with highly engaging reading material at a level they can cope with. The twenty-eight books are divided into seven carefully graded levels to ensure progression and maintain motivation.

Develop key reading skills

Trackers teaches more of the key reading skills than any other special needs course, providing extensive opportunities for consolidation. It combines the approaches of high-frequency words, phonics, syntax and semantics, whilst complementing and extending the UK’s Additional Literacy Support and Further Literacy Support initiatives.

Extend comprehension and writing skills through differentiated activities

Alongside each story there is a range of Clicker activities, all based on specific literacy objectives. At word level, activities include practising high-frequency word recognition and phonic word building. Sentence level activities develop confidence in using the ‘tricky words’ from the story, whilst text level activities include extended writing supported by Clicker Grids. In addition, a range of comprehension activities cover both retrieval and inferential questions.

What activities are included?

Each CD includes all of the following Clicker activities:

Reading

The reading activities encourage children to become familiar with ten high-frequency words from the book.

Word building

Each of the word building activities supports children in building eight words from the book using chunks of sound. The chunks are colour-coded to help children distinguish between them.

Sentence

In the sentence activities, children use ‘tricky words’ from the book in the context of a sentence.

Writing

Each book will have either two writing activities or two question activities. Each writing activity provides a writing frame to complete a piece of text about a certain aspect of the story.

Question

Each book will have either two writing activities or two question activities. Each question activity encourages children to extract information from the story. In Set A, the questions focus on retrieval of detail, whilst Set B focuses on inferential knowledge.

Book making activities

This activity enables children to write their own version of the book. Each screen has a picture, a white text box and pop-up grids, to help them create their own story.

Character

The character activities require children to consider some of the characteristics of key characters, using specific incidents in the text.

This software is also included on the super-value Clicker SuperDrive!

Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$NZ Price	$NZ GST
	Trackers for Clicker - Level 6: Zebra Tracks - Single User Licence	You can install these on one computer on which you use Clicker
	CSTZT	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$280.00	$42.00
	Trackers for Clicker - Level 6: Zebra Tracks - Site Licence	You can install these on any computer on which you use Clicker on a single geographic site
	CSTZT-SL	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$410.00	$61.50
	Trackers for Clicker - All 7 Levels Bundle	You can install these on any computer on which you use Clicker on a single geographic site
	CSTALL-SL	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$1,770.00	$265.50