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'How to'

Ideas for making resources using Writing with Symbols 2000

Making an alphabetical text list from a wordlist
Making Books
Making Bingo Cards
Making Flash Cards
Making Recipe Cards
Making Multi Voiced Dialogue
Making Visual Timetables
Making Menus

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Making an alphabetical text list from a wordlist

Here is the text list for the wordlist Widgit A.

• Make a text file of the wordlist from the Resource Manager
  
• Open that in Word
  
• Do a Find and Replace to replace all the TAB characters with a Paragraph mark
  
• Arrange it in columns (this one is 215 pages otherwise). Please note this is still 65 pages long
  and is why it was not added to the Glossary.

Alternatively:

Widgit_A_alphabetical (662k)

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Making Books

This help sheet from Chris Hopkins describes how to drop photographs into Writing with Symbols 2000 and create a simple book.

simplebooks.PDF (217k)

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Making Bingo Cards

A lovely idea for practicing vocabulary or curriculum wordbanks.
Click here for instructions

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Making Flash Cards

A really quick and easy way to create flashcards for individual children with picture or line drawing as support.
Click here for instructions

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Making Recipe Cards

A really lovely way of illustrating activities in an easily accessible format gives a feeling of independence to the symbol user.
Click here for instructions

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Making Multi Voiced Dialogue

This is a way to enjoy reading plays and poems by hearing them read aloud with different voices for different characters.
Click here for instructions

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Making Visual Timetables

This is how to make a customised timetable using symbols and colours.
Click here for instructions

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Making Menus

There are lots of symbols that support menu options. Make a choice or the symbols or take digital images of the dishes to link to your words. Either way it is easy to produce some clear menus either daily or for use in a canteen or café.
Click here for instructions

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