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Relatable witch draws kids into simple, interactive book ****

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/meet-heckerty

CommonSense.org – Review of Meet Heckerty App Review

Relatable witch draws kids into simple, interactive book

Parents need to know that Heckerty is a witch with a green face — which is an accident — and makes for a relatable, fun character for kids. Meet Heckerty introduces kids to Heckerty and her cat, Zanzibar, and explains how the witch ended up with a green face. The simple, elegant design and animation won’t overwhelm kids with sensory information as some interactive books can. You can connect to Twitter and Facebook as well as the Internet to access Heckerty’s blog and coloring pages, but this is behind a parent lock.

AAC Girls Heckerty Cooks – Character Description Activity

http://aacgirls.blogspot.com/2014/10/heckerty-cooks-character-description.html

AAC Girls Heckerty Cooks – Character Description Activity

This interactive story is fun for multiple purposes:

1) Encouraging Requesting – BEST app ever for this purpose

– Many pictures have multiple actions.  For example, on the last page, patting the cat’s full tummy, results in:
– burping
– meowing and stretching
– farting!

2) Playing Guess Who Characters

a)  First, do a picture walk
b) Next, have each student choose a character from the pictures
–   Note, I put the 5 main characters on notes in Sticky app (see below)
c) Read the story, with each student listening for information about their character
d) Have each student write 3 clues about their character, with the first clue more subtle, and the last clue more obvious
e) Remaining students make guesses after each clue

AAC Girls Heckerty Cooks - Character Description Activity

AAC Girls Heckerty Cooks