Inspiration® Software Partners
Inspiration® Software has collaborated with the following companies and publishers to develop and provide materials that support and enhance the effective integration of Kidspiration® into the classroom.
Related Technologies and Services
Textbook Connections
Related Technologies and Services
Atomic Learning is dedicated to providing educational resources that allow teachers, students and learners of all ages to embrace technology. Their short, easy-to-view-and-understand online tutorials are a great anytime/anywhere resource for answers to those "How do I do that?" questions. For more information and to browse Atomic Learning's online library of Kidspiration tutorials, click here if you are using a PC and here if you are using a Mac.
Sublime Learning™ delivers professional learning designed to unleash the instructional power of Kidspiration and Inspiration. Their unique offering integrates effective teaching strategies with expertise on innovative use of Kidspiration® and Inspiration®. Beyond how-to, they focus on using technology to achieve K-12 instructional for reading, writing, math and thinking skills across the curriculum. To move from ideas to classroom practice, Sublime employs professional learning best practices, and instructors provide foundational knowledge, models, practice and feedback over time.
Educators complete Sublime Learning programs with a better understanding of how to use Inspiration and Kidspiration to encourage creative and critical thinking, increase differentiated instruction, and engage students more deeply in their own learning process.
Textbook Connections
Many leading education textbook publishers have chosen graphic organizers as a core strategy for improving learning outcomes. They use graphic organizers within textbooks to present new information and concepts, and they give recommendations on how to use graphic organizers with student activities in their teacher guides and classroom materials.
Avenues Series-Success in Language, Literacy, and Content
Hampton-Brown
Grades K-5/ESL
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Avenues Level A
Kindergarten |
Avenues Level B
Grade 1 |
Avenues Level C
Grade 2 |
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Avenues Level D
Grade 3 |
Avenues Level A
Grade 4 |
Avenues Level B
Grade 5 |
Hampton-Brown's Avenues Series Teacher's Editions show how to use Kidspiration with a variety of language arts lesson plans for grades K-5, including writing, vocabulary building and comprehension. Lesson plans are designed for bilingual and ESL as well as mainstream educational settings.
With Kidspiration, students develop vocabulary and writing skills by building graphic organizers as part of the lesson plans. The Hampton-Brown Avenues Series is a standards-based reading and language arts program, designed to promote success in language, literacy and content.
A single copy of Kidspiration software is included with the Hampton-Brown Avenues Series Support Packs.
With Kidspiration and Hampton-Brown, students:
- understand, learn and remember new words by building graphic organizers that combine text, pictures and spoken words.
- build comprehension through story mapping.
- make bilingual dictionaries in their home language and English.
- improve comprehension and pronunciation with audio tools.
Social Studies Series
Pearson Scott Foresman
Grades 1-6/Social Studies
Download Explore Activities and Graphic Organizer templates to complete assignments that use graphic organizers as suggested in the Scott Foresman Social Studies Series Teacher's Editions.
Created in Kidspiration, these activities and graphic organizers help young learners represent thoughts, group and compare ideas, and organize information.
To use Explore Activities and Graphic Organizer templates, you must have Kidspiration. To download a free 30-day trial of Kidspiration, click here.
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Find your textbook below and select your operating system to begin downloading Explore Activities and Graphic Organizer templates.
Strategies for Writers, levels A-E
Zaner-Bloser
Grades 1-5/Writing
Download Kidspiration templates to use with activities and projects found in Zaner-Bloser's Strategies for Writers' textbooks and notebooks. Using these graphic organizers with process writing will help your students systematically and confidently plan and organize their writing in five critical modes: narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive and test writing.
To use these templates, you must have Kidspiration. To download a free 30-day trial of Kidspiration, click here.
Click on your textbook to access the templates:
Level A, Grade 1
Level B, Grade 2
Level C, Grade 3
Level D, Grade 4
Level E, Grade 5
