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World War Two

Activities Based on the World War Two Books

This pack contains 21 activities for Communicate:SymWriter. They are based on the World War Two books, with 4 environments for each bookset title. The 4 activities are:

Writing with plain text
True or false
Questions
Matching

Also included is one topic vocabulary activity, with each of the new topic words in a cell to aid with spelling and independent writing.

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

Matching

This activity is designed to sit in with the single symbol books. The aim of the activity is to enable the learner to match the key symbols from each page with its appropriate word. When the learner clicks on a word, a sentence is read to them and written on the page so that they can understand which symbol to place next to the word.

Questions

This activity has audio questions for the learner to respond to. In the orange cells is a question about the topic. Once the learner clicks this cell the question is read to them, they have the opportunity to then answer the question with information provided in the other cells.

True or False

This is a true or false activity. The learner is presented with two sentences per grid, one of these is true and one is false. The learner then able to click on a sentence and mark with a tick or cross whether they believe that it is true or false.

Writing

In this activity the learner is presented with a grid containing all of the words from each page of the text level book. There is also a cell with the corresponding questions. Once the student has read the question they are able to write appropriate answers from the words in the grid.

Topic Vocabulary Prompt

This activity is an environment containing all of the new vocabulary from the topic. Each word is presented in the grid with symbol support, this enables the learner to type independently on the page. Then, when they reach a new word they are having difficulty spelling they can quickly look it up by choosing the appropriate grid and word. Once the word is clicked it inserts to the document, allowing the learner to continue in their writing.

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Using the activities in Communicate: SymWriter

You must update your copy of SymWriter to version 1.1.6845 or later for the installation of downloaded environments to work successfully. The FREE update can be found at: http://www.widgit.com/support/symwriter/download

The Communicate: SymWriter set of files are installed into the SymWriter environments folder. This includes any additional symbols or graphics that are used in the packs, which will be available for you to use in your own materials.

More information on installing environments PDF Document.

As well as using the materials as supplied, they can be modified or adapted for individual needs, for example by adding or removing symbols to give the most appropriate level of individual support.

These activities are designed to enable the learner to write independently and any work that is produced can be easily printed with black and white or colour symbol support.

Matching This activity is designed to sit in with the single symbol books. The aim of the activity is to enable the learner to match the key symbols from each page with its appropriate word. When the learner clicks on a word, a sentence is read to them and written on the page so that they can understand which symbol to place next to the word.
Questions This activity has audio questions for the learner to respond to. In the orange cells is a question about the topic. Once the learner clicks this cell the question is read to them, they have the opportunity to then answer the question with information provided in the other cells.
True or False This is a true or false activity. The learner is presented with two sentences per grid, one of these is true and one is false. The learner then able to click on a sentence and mark with a tick or cross whether they believe that it is true or false.
Writing In this activity the learner is presented with a grid containing all of the words from each page of the text level book. There is also a cell with the corresponding questions. Once the student has read the question they are able to write appropriate answers from the words in the grid.
Topic Vocabulary Prompt This activity is an environment containing all of the new vocabulary from the topic. Each word is presented in the grid with symbol support, this enables the learner to type independently on the page. Then, when they reach a new word they are having difficulty spelling they can quickly look it up by choosing the appropriate grid and word. Once the word is clicked it inserts to the document, allowing the learner to continue in their writing.

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Using the activities in Communicate: SymWriter