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Kidspiration Activity File
Overview:
This activity is used in a fourth grade classroom. It is a way
for the students to identify challenging spelling words, as well
as have the correct spellings at the tips of their fingers. It
also allows the students to use several different aspects of technology
that they will use many times throughout their lives.
Objectives:
- The
students will use the Kidspiration template to create a web
containing five personal spelling words.
- The
students will toggle back and forth between picture and writing
view to obtain the correct spelling of the words that they have
chosen.
Materials Needed:
- Instruction cards
(prepared by teacher)
- Dictionary (just
in case)
- Any other spelling
list that the students can choose from.
- Kidspiration template
Activity Instructions:
1. Explain to the students
that they are responsible for 5 words that will be challenging
for them. Let the students know about all of the resources that
they can use to find these words. They can use dictionaries, spelling
lists(maybe from spelling bees or old books), and most importantly
the Kidspiration Libraries.
2. The students will find the words that they want to work on
and insert them into the web. If it is a word from an outside
source, the students will click inside of one of the yellow branches
and type the word in. Once it is typed in the yellow oval the
student needs to click outside of the oval.
3. To type the next word the student follows the same procedure
clicking inside of the next oval, and so on.
4. If the student would like to use the pictures that are available
in the libraries they need to first click inside of an oval. Then
they will double click on the picture that they want to include
in their web.
5. after they have inserted the picture they need to toggle to
writing view to retrieve the correct spelling of the word, and
then toggle back to picture view.
6. They will continue with the next picture by clicking in another
oval and repeating the given process.
7. Once the student has inserted all 5 words, it is time to print
their web. The student simply goes to file on the top tool bar,
and down to print clicking once, and then ok.
8. Once it has been printed the web is turned in to the teacher
for final approval.
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