decisions about what else they would like to know. The “How will you find out?” column prompts students to plan their learning steps and to decide where and how to learn what they want to know. Students without well-developed writing skills, including younger students, those with special needs, and English language learners, may repre-sent their current and desired knowledge by choosing from the hun-dreds of graphics and symbols included with both Kidspiration and Inspiration. If a desired graphic is not part of an existing symbol library, there are two ways to add it. In Kidspiration, the students can use the Symbol Maker drawing and paint tool to create practically any graphic, using a variety of lines, shapes, brushes, and colors on a “canvas.” And in both Kidspiration and Inspiration, teachers can cus-tomize the symbol library by inserting, deleting, or creating a new symbol library of their choosing. This is exactly what one elementary teacher did as she was preparing her class to read the book Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin Jr. She found graphics depicting the book cover, setting, and characters, and made a custom symbol library for her students to use. They used Kidspiration to create webs showing what they knew about the book before and after reading the story.