Kidspiration+and+Transferring

One of my school's main topics at the moment is **Fairytales** and the focus is **Narrative** writing. Combine **Kidspiration**, graphics from Microsoft Clipart gallery and children's writing and you have an activity that children enjoy doing and a wonderful assessment tool for the teacher. Insert some graphics onto a Kidspiration page (or Inspiration). Save the page as a template

Go to Teacher - Enable Teacher Menu, select **Teacher - Save with Activity Wizard.** C lick **Next** 5 times. Select where you would like to save it Children open the template, move the graphics around to form the sequence of the story and type in the story. When the story is finished click on the **Writing** button, click on the **Publish** button. You may be asked if you want to open it in Word or Appleworks, choose the application you want to use. The diagram will transfer to this application and students can now edit their text. Teachers can use this as an assessment tools as they can see what the student's original thoughts were in the diagram and how they edited and reworked the text to create their narrative below the diagram.