Kidspiration Maps helps young readers and writers learn to organize and classify information, gain sight word knowledge and expand their ideas into written and verbal expression. By creating story maps, Venn diagrams, and webs, students visualize what they are learning, improving their understanding and comprehension while also providing tangible demonstration of learning for formative assessment.

Choose from a variety of activitiesEngage students with built-in activities in reading, writing, social studies, science and math. Easily customize any activity for your classroom needs.

Constructive, creative learning promotes comprehensionThe visual learning tools in Kidspiration Maps give students the opportunity to manipulate concrete objects in order to understand and work with abstract concepts.

Classify and compare with SuperGrouper® ViewWhen students use SuperGrouper View they practice and develop grouping, categorization, analysis and decision making skills. Venn diagrams are one example of a SuperGrouper. Kidspiration Maps translates the visual logic of the SuperGrouper diagram into written form when the student switches to Writing View.

Grades K–5

Create visual maps to build reading, writing and thinking skills

For iPad

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Support students at any skill levelActivities are easy to customize for students who need simpler or more complex tasks. For emerging readers, teachers can record verbal instructions, and verbal pronunication can be appended to any symbol or word to provide an additional scaffold.

Benefits• Develops critical thinking skills• Encourages creativity and active learning• Engages the reluctant writer• Aids comprehension of abstract concepts• Boosts planning and organization skills• Visual cues provide support for English language

learners and special needs students• Enables content creation on the iPad Features• Picture-to-Text conversion: transforms visual

representations into written words, helping students progress easily from concepting to writing

• SuperGrouper: helps teach students to sort, group and classify objects and ideas

• Audio notes: students or teachers can append audio to any symbol, to add information or rehearse speech

• Classroom-ready activities are included• Symbol library includes 1300+ graphics• Add images: from the web, the iPad photo

album or directly from the iPad camera (if available)

• Add hyperlinks within symbols• Share and store documents using Dropbox

or email

Kidspiration Maps is also available through the Apple Volume Purchase

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