Resources to Help You Integrate Kidspiration® Across the Curriculum
Related Technologies and Services
Lesson Plan Books
Textbook Connections
Related Technologies and Services
Sublime Learning™ delivers professional learning designed to unleash the instructional power of Kidspiration® and Inspiration®. Their unique offering integrates effective teaching strategies with expertise on innovative use of Kidspiration® and Inspiration®. Beyond how-to, they focus on using technology to achieve K-12 instructional for reading, writing, math and thinking skills across the curriculum. To move from ideas to classroom practice, Sublime employs professional learning best practices, and instructors provide foundational knowledge, models, practice and feedback over time.
Educators complete Sublime Learning programs with a better understanding of how to use Inspiration and Kidspiration to encourage creative and critical thinking, increase differentiated instruction, and engage students more deeply in their own learning process.
Atomic Learning is dedicated to providing educational resources that allow teachers, students and learners of all ages to embrace technology. Their short, easy-to-view-and-understand online tutorials are a great anytime/anywhere resource for answers to those "How do I do that?" questions. For more information and to browse Atomic Learning's online library of Kidspiration tutorials, click here if you are using a PC and here if you are using a Mac.
Lesson Plan Books
Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate Kidspiration® and visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity.
Kidspiration in the Classroom: Reading Essentials
Designed for two grade spans, K-2 and 3-5, the Kidspiration in the Classroom: Reading Essentials lesson plan book offers 50 standards-based lesson plans designed specifically to support K-5 reading curriculum.
Lessons for grades K-2 focus on early literacy and the essential components of effective reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. For grades 3-5, the lessons focus on teaching comprehension, vocabulary and content literacy. Many of the book's lessons make use of the activities included in Kidspiration 3.
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Kidspiration in the Classroom: Math Made Visual
Kidspiration in the Classroom: Math Made Visual supports teachers as they help students develop mathematical concepts, skills, thinking and reasoning.
30 lesson plans are included, aligned to NCTM standards and designed specifically to support K-5 math instruction using Kidspiration 3.
Lessons focus on core content strands, including number and operations, algebra, measurement, and geometry, in contexts that promote problem solving, reasoning and communication. Utilizing activities created in Kidspiration, these lessons help students develop conceptual understanding while communicating their thinking with pictures, models, words, numbers, math symbols and the math tools available in Kidspiration 3—color tiles, pattern blocks, base ten blocks, fraction boxes and fraction tiles.
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Kidspiration in the Classroom: Writing Essentials
Kidspiration in the Classroom: Writing Essentials supports teachers as they help K-5 students learn the process of writing well. The book offers standards-aligned chapters and lessons on prewriting, drafting and revising, editing and publishing and forms of writing.
Utilizing activities created in Kidspiration, lessons are aligned to standards, and are designed specifically to support K-5 writing instruction using Kidspiration 3. Kidspiration in the Classroom: Writing Essentials also includes references to suggested reading materials and other resources for teaching students how to appreciate and learn the nuances of quality writing.
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Textbook Connections
Many leading education textbook publishers have chosen graphic organizers as a core strategy for improving learning outcomes. They use graphic organizers within textbooks to present new information and concepts, and they give recommendations on how to use graphic organizers with student activities in their teacher guides and classroom materials.
Inspiration Software® has collaborated with publishers to provide materials that make it easy to effectively integrate the use of Kidspiration with the following textbooks:
Avenues Series-Success in Language, Literacy, and Content
Hampton-Brown
Grades K-5/ESL
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Avenues Level A
Kindergarten |
Avenues Level B
Grade 1 |
Avenues Level C
Grade 2 |
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Avenues Level D
Grade 3 |
Avenues Level A
Grade 4 |
Avenues Level B
Grade 5 |
Hampton-Brown's Avenues Series Teacher's Editions show how to use Kidspiration with a variety of language arts lesson plans for grades K-5, including writing, vocabulary building and comprehension. Lesson plans are designed for bilingual and ESL as well as mainstream educational settings.
With Kidspiration, students develop vocabulary and writing skills by building graphic organizers as part of the lesson plans. The Hampton-Brown Avenues Series is a standards-based reading and language arts program, designed to promote success in language, literacy and content.
A single copy of Kidspiration software is included with the Hampton-Brown Avenues Series Support Packs.
With Kidspiration and Hampton-Brown, students:
- understand, learn and remember new words by building graphic organizers that combine text, pictures and spoken words.
- build comprehension through story mapping.
- make bilingual dictionaries in their home language and English.
- improve comprehension and pronunciation with audio tools.
Social Studies Series
Pearson Scott Foresman
Grades 1-6/Social Studies
Download Explore Activities and Graphic Organizer templates to complete assignments that use graphic organizers as suggested in the Scott Foresman Social Studies Series Teacher's Editions.
Created in Kidspiration, these activities and graphic organizers help young learners represent thoughts, group and compare ideas, and organize information.
To use Explore Activities and Graphic Organizer templates, you must have Kidspiration. To download a free 30-day trial of Kidspiration, click here.
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Find your textbook below and select your operating system to begin downloading Explore Activities and Graphic Organizer templates.
Strategies for Writers, levels A-E
Zaner-Bloser
Grades 1-5/Writing
Download Kidspiration templates to use with activities and projects found in Zaner-Bloser's Strategies for Writers' textbooks and notebooks. Using these graphic organizers with process writing will help your students systematically and confidently plan and organize their writing in five critical modes: narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive and test writing.
To use these templates, you must have Kidspiration. To download a free 30-day trial of Kidspiration, click here.
Click on your textbook to access the templates:
Level A, Grade 1
Level B, Grade 2
Level C, Grade 3
Level D, Grade 4
Level E, Grade 5
