Sets of flash cards for popular children's books.

These packs give vocabulary cards with symbols, cards with text, cards with symbols and text, and smaller cards with words and phrases to support popular reading books. There are materials to support 5 books in each download pack.

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What's in each pack
How to use the packs

Download it for use in Communicate: In Print 2, including all the additional graphics so that you can tailor the materials to suit your group and make your own materials.
You need 'Communicate: In Print 2' installed to able to use this resource

Download the packs as PDF Files. These do not require symbol software, but you will not be able to edit the activities.
You do not need any Widgit software to be able to use this resource

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Important Notice

All Widgit resources whether bought or free of charge are protected by copyright. The symbols are copyright Widgit Software or Mayer Johnson LLC and the content of the materials is copyright Widgit Software unless otherwise specified.

You may not under any circumstances distribute these to any third parties, they are for your own use. Distribution of materials is illegal.

Why are the vocabulary cards useful?

Big books are used in group story reading. The cards can help pupils understand the vocabulary while listening to the story and in follow-up activities. Find out how they have been used in the Symbols Inclusion Project.

All of the main words used in the book are included in the pack, except for specific characters. There are cards for between 35 and 80 words in each set, plus some key phrases.

Activities to do with the vocabulary cards:

1. Use the cards when reading the story to a group. Showing the symbols helps children understand and remember the words.

2. Put the cards on the wall as a reference sheet. Any child who does not remember a word can easily look it up.

3. Print off the sets of vocabulary with symbol support for pupils to use when writing about the story. This will give confidence to some children who are unsure of all the words.

4. Make matching activities using the cards to match between identical cards or to match symbols only with the text cards

If you have Communicate: In Print you can also

5. Make bingo and matching games using templates provided

6. Print out large copies of the black and white symbols for colouring.

7. print the cards in colour or as line drawings

8. Print the cards at A4 for group work or two pages to a sheet to make A5 booklets for individual pupils.

Printing the materials from Communicate: In Print 2.

The Communicate: In Print 2 set of files are installed into the Communicate files/In Print Writing folder, in Widgit Resources.

The extra vocabulary for the wordlist and the extra graphics are provided with the pack and automatically added to WIDRESOURCES (Widgit graphic resources). This enables you to also create your own materials to meet individual needs.

Communicate: In Print gives you the option to print either as single sheets or as books ready to staple and fold. You can also choose to print double sided.

Printing the PDF Files

These files can be printed directly from Acrobat Reader. You do not need any of the Widgit Products to access these files, but you will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed.