Kidspiration

 ====Kidspiration is a valuable teaching tool that is relatively easy to use and very kid friendly. You will discover its effectiveness is allowing students a chance to manipulate words and pictures to help them understand concepts. Every subject area is included. It provides a wide variety of non-linguistic representations that are especially effective for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. ====

====Besides using Kidspiration for creating graphic organizers I have also used it to create sequence of events using pictures only. You can mix the pictures up on the screen and have the students come up to the computer and move the pictures into the correct order. You can also place pictures randomly on the screen and have students sort the pictures into the correct category. This works well for kindergarten and first grade students learning how to sort animals into groups based on their physical traits. Second grade students could use the graphic organizers to show life cycles. ====

Click here for a sample lesson plan using Kidspiration.

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