Resources to Help You Integrate Kidspiration^® Across the Curriculum

Lesson Plan Books
 

Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate Kidspiration^® and visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity.  
  
Kidspiration in the Classroom: Reading Essentials
Designed for two age spans, 4-7 and 8-10, the Kidspiration^® in the Classroom: Reading Essentials lesson plan book offers 50 lesson plans designed specifically to support primary reading curriculum.
 
Lessons for ages 4-7 focus on early literacy and the essential components of effective reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. For ages 8-10, the lessons focus on teaching comprehension, vocabulary and content literacy. Many of the book's lessons make use of the activities included in Kidspiration 3. 

Kidspiration in the Classroom: Math Made Visual
The Kidspiration in the Classroom: Math Made Visual lesson plan book supports teachers as they help pupils develop mathematical concepts, skills, thinking and reasoning.

Thirty lesson plans are included, and are designed specifically to support maths instruction for ages 5-11 using Kidspiration 3. 
 

Lessons focus on core content strands, including number and operations, algebra, measurement, and geometry, in contexts that promote problem solving, reasoning and communication. Utilizing activities created in Kidspiration, these lessons help pupils develop conceptual understanding while communicating their thinking with pictures, models, words, numbers, maths symbols and the maths tools available in Kidspiration 3: Colour Tiles, Pattern Blocks, Base Ten Blocks, Fraction Boxes and Fraction Tiles.