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Kidspiration 2.1
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Created for children between 5-10 years of age, Kidspiration provides an easy way to apply the proven principles of visual learning. This program creates a visual means to think, write and comprehend.
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Kidspiration 2.1
Created for children between 5-10 years of age, Kidspiration® provides an easy way to apply the proven principles of visual learning. Students build graphic organisers by combining pictures, text and spoken words to represent thoughts and information.
Younger learners develop early literacy skills, and more advanced students improve comprehension skills and they learn to better organise ideas for writing. Young learners use Kidspiration to categorise and group ideas, express and organise thoughts, and comprehend and communicate ideas.
Tap multiple learning styles
The powerful combination of visual representations, text-based outlines and Kidspiration's speech capabilities encourages learning in multiple modes.
Develop emerging literacy skills
Students take advantage of the power of the picture to build early reading and writing skills. With Symbol Maker, they draw to visually express their thoughts. Paired words and symbols in Writing View help students make the literacy connection.
Categorize and group ideas
SuperGrouper® shapes - symbols that represent main topics or concepts - offer young students a visual way to sort, group, classify and compare. Students simply drag words or picture symbols into SuperGrouper shapes to show relationships. With Kidspiration, students can now create Venn diagrams or choose any symbol to represent categories - adding more visual meaning to grouping activities.
Express and organise thoughts
Using Kidspiration, students advance through the writing process, developing well-organised stories and reports. In Picture View, they create graphic organisers to brainstorm and organise ideas. Work is automatically available in Writing View format for drafting. Then with one click, projects can be moved to a word processor to be finalised.
Build comprehension skills
In Put Reading First, the (American) National Reading Panel cites the use of graphic organisers as a key strategy for developing text comprehension. With Kidspiration, students use graphic organisers to show and explore relationships as well as improve comprehension and retention of information.
Graphic organisers
Young readers use Kidspiration to combine pictures, text and spoken words to represent their ideas and show relationships. For example, in Picture View, students build groups, webs or concept maps. Then they move their work to Writing View to expand their ideas into written expression. As a learning tool, Kidspiration offers a wide range of capabilities to leverage the learning styles and skills of each student.
SuperGrouper tool improves categorisation skills
Students learn to sort, group, classify and compare by dragging words and symbols into SuperGrouper shapes that represent a topic or concept. In Kidspiration, students can now create Venn diagrams. And, with one click, they can turn any symbol into a SuperGrouper shpae, adding more visual meaning to grouping activities.
Symbols help emerging readers communicate ideas
Early readers and English language learners use Kidspiration's library of 1200 symbols to convey ideas and relationships. the new Symbol Maker tool makes it easy for students to draw personalised symbols to include in graphic organisers.
Speech supports auditory learners
Sudents make important literacy connections with the combination of written words and pictures, along with the spoken words. By choosing the Listen Tool, students can hear any text read aloud. They can also record their own words and narration.
Ready-made activities get students started quickly
Kidspiration comes with 75 built-in activity templates to help build standards-based skills across the curriculum. Using the Activity Wizard, teachers easily create or modify activities to match the learning needs of individual students.
Support of emerging technologies
Kidspiration offers enhanced capability with interactive whiteboards and Tablet PCs. Shape and handwriting recognition make it possible to sketch symbols and write text directly on whiteboards, so teachers can work efficiently and students can participate easily.
Intuitive navigation makes Kidspiration easy to use for all ages
The starter screen interface makes it easy for young learners to begin a new project or open an activity. The symbols they click on to activate their chosen activity are easily identifiable and logically refer to the activity.
Compatibility
Kidspiration is compatible with the following operating systems:
Windows
95, 98, 2000, NT4.0, ME, XP (including Tablet PC edition) and Vista
Mac System 7 through to OSX
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