Inspiration's Kidspiration Literacy Lesson Plan Book

If you are using Kidspiration, especially Kidspiration 3, you'll want to take a look at Kidspiration® in the Classroom Reading Essentials. This is a resource book ($29.95) that includes 50 standards-based lesson plans that will help you with integration of technology and visual learning into the K-5 curriculum. The lessons feature vocabulary building, reading comprehension, context clues, phonics, literary analysis, and more. For Grades K-2 the emphasis is upon literacy skills and effective reading instruction, while the Grades 3-5 suggestions relate more to reading comprehension, vocabulary building, and content literacy skills. There are lesson on matching synonyms, building compound words, spelling patterns, identifying phonograms, making plurals, retelling stories, nonfiction, storyboarding, creating mental images, and inference. The clever ideas in the resource book make effective use of the visual learning and graphic organization that is Kidspiration and Inspiration software.