Introduction to Kidspiration

Inservice Training Outline


Outline
  1. Introductions

  2. Why Use Kidspiration?

    1. Visual Learning

      All of these examples can be viewed in Kidspiration by choosing File, New and then looking in the appropriate folder.
    2. Types of webs
      • Idea maps (Social Studies, How People Lived in the Past)
      • Concept maps (Science, Elephants & Social Studies, Thanksgiving)
        Webs
      • Literary Web (Reading & Writing, Thinking about Stories)
      • Character Web (Reading & Writing, Character)
      • Comparison (Reading & Writing, Comparison)

    3. Pre-writing activities (Reading & Writing, My Story Starter)

    4. Pre-built activities
      • Sorting – ( More, Inside Out)

    5. Super-grouper for individuals or full class activities

  3. Start from scratch
    • Build a map to write a simple story for your grade

  4. Exporting to Microsoft Word
    • Exports as RTF and you must import as RTF
Resources
Handouts

 

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