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What's New in Kidspiration™3!Created for K-5
learners, Kidspiration® 3 uses the proven principles of
visual learning to strengthen reading and writing skills, build conceptual
understanding in math and develop thinking skills across the curriculum.
The newest version of Kidspiration offers exciting new
capabilities including 3000+ symbols, keyword symbol search, Word Guide,
enhanced auditory support, new visual math tools, and more curriculum materials.
These added functionalities work together to give students more opportunities to
explore new concepts, discover meaning and express themselves with pictures,
text, numbers and spoken words.
New capabilities strengthen reading and
writing skills
Kidspiration builds students' word recognition, vocabulary and
comprehension using visual tools that combine pictures, text and spoken words.
 | Enhanced audio support
Longer recording time encourages students to express and
document their ideas. Teachers have more flexibility when recording
instructions and comments. For ESL and ELL learners, teachers can record
instructions in native languages to enhance student understanding. |
New Math View builds conceptual
understanding in math
Now Kidspiration extends the proven principles of visual
learning to mathematics. Combining the hands-on learning power of manipulatives
with all the added benefits of computer interactivity, Kidspiration's new Math
View and visual math tools help learners build a strong mathematical foundation
to understand math concepts.
Five visual math tools
Kidspiration's visual math tools focus on the core conceptual
foundations of counting, place value on computation and geometric thinking.
Students build number sense and spatial reasoning and understand the meaning
behind the four basic operations while communicating their thinking with words,
numbers and math symbols.
Kidspiration Color Tiles™
Students use Kidspiration Color Tiles to count and compare,
explore properties of number and operations and develop computation strategies.
With Kidspiration Color Tiles, students learn to solve area and perimeter
problems and model number patterns and the four basic operations.
Kidspiration Pattern Blocks™
Students use Kidspiration Pattern Blocks to investigate the
properties and attributes of shapes through composition and decomposition. They
produce patterns and tessellations, explore similarity and congruence,
experiment with symmetry and represent fractions.
Kidspiration Base Ten Blocks™
Students use Kidspiration Base Ten Blocks to understand place
value and strengthen number sense. With Kidspiration Base Ten Blocks, they
count, compare, group, partition and create equivalent representations of whole
numbers and decimals. Kidspiration Base Ten Blocks also introduce students to
procedures for operations on multi-digit numbers.
Kidspiration Fraction Tiles™
Students use Kidspiration Fraction Tiles to compare and order
fractions and to understand equivalent fractions. They find common denominators,
translate between improper fractions and mixed numbers and model basic
operations with fractions.
Kidspiration Fraction Boxes™
Students use Kidspiration Fraction Boxes to represent fractions
visually to build a strong conceptual foundation for future work with fractions.
Students compare, order, simplify and find equivalent fractions. They use
Kidspiration Fraction Boxes to model basic operations with like and unlike
denominators. Kidspiration Fraction Boxes also introduce students to improper
fractions, mixed numbers and representing word problems.
New features and functions make
Kidspiration's math tools easy to use
| Kidspiration Math SuperGrouper™ helps students count, sort
and show operations visually. Teachers and students label Math SuperGroupers
as a conceptual building block for word problems. |
| Math Text Boxes document math operations using words,
numbers and structured frames. The Math Text Box supports writing fractions,
division problems and vertical math notations. |
| Step Workspace shows progression of work with a sequential
work area to document steps while problem-solving. |
| Cross-Out Stamp gives students a visual indicator to use
when they mark, take away or remove items. |
| Multiple pages in a document streamline workspace
management. |
New educator-developed resources support
curriculum integration
Kidspiration now includes more curriculum content, new teacher
tools and standards-aligned lesson plans in Language Arts, Math, Science and
Social Studies developed specifically for grades K-5, along with 150+ activity
templates.
| 150+ enhanced quick-start activity templates give teachers
classroom-ready resources and provide a launching pad to customize and create
lessons for individual learners, small groups and the whole class.
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| Tutorials provide a fast effective way to introduce
teachers to visual learning with Kidspiration so they're successful from the
start. |
| Teacher Resources Online provides additional lesson plans
and activities. |
Additional support for ELL and ESL students
Kidspiration uses proven visual learning strategies to build
students' vocabulary and English comprehension with the integrated Picture and
Writing Views, the new Word Guide, enhanced audio support and the new symbol
search and expanded symbol library. In addition, Kidspiration emphasizes the
development and use of independent learning strategies, such as pictorial
representation of thoughts and concepts. The new Word Guide includes an
extensive sight vocabulary list, which aligns with Fry's Instant Word List,
Dolch Word List and TESL vocabulary.
Kidspiration keeps up with the latest
technology
Kidspiration now supports higher resolution monitors with a
larger visual workspace. Kidspiration is compatible with Windows®
Vista®.
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