Great Use of Kidspiration

Kidspiration can be used as a reading aid for students, particularly when they are doing research and finding only sources of information that are too difficult to read easily. Here's how to do it: Highlight a section of the text to be read aloud and copy it. Open up Kidspiration and choose picture view. Click the main idea oval, erase main idea, and paste in the copied text. Click the ear in the top toolbar and click the oval (now greatly expanded). The program will "read" the words. You may have to play around a little bit with the clicking to get it to play, but it seems to play when you've inserted the text, clicked the ear, and then clicked the oval to highlight it.