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September 2008
INSPIRATION & KIDSPIRATION

Faribury Public Schools has purchased the Kidspiration/Inspiration software to support teachers’ efforts related to district-wide school improvement goal & identified intervention strategies:

All students will improve their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills across the curriculum.

Students will improve their reading comprehension skills by learning to use Graphic Organizers as a strategic tool to identify key concepts and supporting details, examples and definitions.

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The session page from August 2007 includes links to "How To" handouts

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Graphic Organizers: Why? How? The Concept-Mapping Classroom Inspiration & Kidspiration Basics Inspired Learning Community (Check out the videos!)

INSPIRATION IN THE CLASSROOM

• Poetry Analysis
• Parts of Speech
• Teaching Preposition of Spatial Relationships
• Parts of the Digestive System
• Art History Highlights
• Comparing Jane & Charlotte
• Vocabulary Web: One New Word
• Elements of a Short Story
• Our Nine Planets
• Parts of a Newspaper
  
  Examples at these sites can be viewed online:
• Inspiration Projects
• Examples To Get You Started
• Inspiration Diagram Archive
• Real-Life Case Studies
  

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KIDSPIRATION IN THE CLASSROOM

• New Spelling & Vocabulary Words
• Adding Interesting Words
• When We Use Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
• Rebus Writing
• Math Vocabulary
• Synonyms & Antonyms
• Gathering Info From a Website
• Is It a Complete Sentence?
  
  Examples at these sites can be viewed online:
• Kidspiration Activities
• Examples To Get You Started
• Kidspiration Diagram Archive
  
  
  Examples at these sites require Kidspiration:
• Kidspiration: Cape Teachers Templates & Ideas
• Kidspired Frosty Tales
• Kidspiration Activities (Edina, MN)

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