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Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.

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Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
125 Guided Reading Activities for Any Book
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125 Guided Reading Activities for Any Book

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This HUGE collection of READING ACTIVITIES for ANY BOOK or TEXT TYPE is packed with DIFFERENTIATED TASKS for FICTION and NONFICTION TEXT GENRES. Your students can work INDEPENDENTLY or in GROUPS through these FUN and ENGAGING activities that will make reading in 2023 a blast! WHAT'S INCLUDED 60+ activities require students to RESPOND in various genres and styles. 40+ activities incorporating ARTISTIC and CREATIVE skills about their book 30+ TECHNOLOGY activities, including open-ended iPad and web-based tasks 25+ GROUP-based tasks 20+ tasks requiring RESEARCH and ENQUIRY of concepts within a text. 50+ tasks to use with FILMS, GRAPHIC NOVELS and DIGITAL LITERACIES. 15+ activities involving DRAMA, MUSIC and ROLE PLAYING 88 PRINTABLE Task Cards 25+ GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS that can be applied to any text Reading WORKSHEETS These evergreen 125 activities are available in DIGITAL and PRINT formats for you to use in READING CENTER ROTATIONS or online INSTRUCTIONAL TASKS your students can efficiently complete. This top seller will not disappoint when providing a nice balance of direct instruction and freedom to let students personalize their learning due to the range and diversity of resources and lesson content. This set of beautifully presented reading activities ensures students are engaged and on task during literacy rotations and can be used for both groups and independent study. Each 40-60 minute lesson contains multiple "evergreen" activities so that they can be applied to any student or text. Every activity has clear instructions and open-ended outcomes to meet the needs of all ability ranges. We know this through experience: an exemplary teacher designed each one, and they have all been used in our classrooms for over two decades.
Aesop's Fable Unit (Reading & Writing Fables for Meaning, Moral and Message.)
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Aesop's Fable Unit (Reading & Writing Fables for Meaning, Moral and Message.)

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What engages kids even more than listening to a good story? ☀️PARTICIPATING IN IT!☀️ That’s what they’ll be doing with AESOP'S FABLE POWER PACK, which offers a COMPLETE, NO-PREP UNIT. *************************************************************************** This HUGE BUNDLE offers a mix of hands-on, printable, and digital media resources. By the time you have finished this pack, your students won’t just be able to READ and COMPREHEND fables, but will also be WRITING their own unique fables with structure and purpose. That’s why this is one of the best reviewed products we have to offer – it keeps kids excited and engaged for over a week as you work through the following areas: ✔ What Is a Fable and Its Purpose? ✔ Who Is Aesop, The Father of Fables? ✔ 12 Famous Interactive Fables by Aesop (Professionally Narrated) ✔ Scripted Fable Theater - Turn These Fables into a Drama Class ✔ Deconstructing Fables for Meaning ✔ Planning and Assessment Rubrics for Writing Fables ✔ Fable Writing Workshop ✔ Character Traits Worksheets and Activities for All of Aesop's Creatures ✔ Digital and Paper Based Resources for Publishing Fables ✔ Fable Glossary and Curriculum Links. The entire collection is provided to you in EDITABLE PowerPoint and Word formats and also available as a printable PDF eBook. Each lesson is a complete plan that eliminates your preparation time, but if you need to modify the content to suit a particular class, you can easily do so. We even hired a professional voice actor so that you can listen to these fables with your class in style! ****************************************************************************** Like the sound of this? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways. *************************************************************************** Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
Full Year Visual Writing Prompts Bundle
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Full Year Visual Writing Prompts Bundle

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Get your English students fascinated with writing through this engaging pack of visual writing prompts! ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes. *************************************************************************** 2019 UPDATE: Just added over 200 DIGITAL Visual Prompt graphic organizers for 1:1 / BYOD / Google Classroom Users. *PLUS* 120 printable visual writing tasks for the classroom or homework. We have upgraded both the digital and paper based content. This versatile bundle of resources will open up your students’ imaginations as they learn about observing details, writing with precision, and using figurative language. Best of all, this pack contains one photo for every day of the school year. Instead of scouring the Internet for appropriate photos and spending hours every week building your own activities, you can finish your entire year’s writing preparation with a single click. Here’s what you get: Over 370 breathtaking, high-resolution photos selected to inspire thought and creativity for a variety of writing tasks. 40 weekly Snapshot writing activities to ensure that students of any age and ability can respond to the images with direction and purpose. 200+ Digital Graphic Organizers with awesome visual writing prompts that can be used in Google Classroom, One Note or any digital student/teacher device. Free download of our Snapshot Writing Tool 40 Weekly Newspaper report writing prompts and activities using photos and graphic organizers. Instructions and techniques for pairing the visuals with Snapshot Writing Tool to get the most out of your students. Two formats: a PowerPoint presentation for large classes and a 416-page eBook for personal or small group use. This download contains the following sections: Weird and Wonderful Moments of Terror Bad 'Engrish' Oddball Epic Fails Into the Wilderness You Gotta See This Animal Antics What a Wonderful World I See It But I Don't Believe It (Digitally-altered images) Warm and Fuzzy A Different Time This bundle has been used by hundreds of teachers and thousands of students around the world and continues to engage students of any age and ability in writing. Check out the great reviews below! ***************************************************************************
Dear Santa Letter Template
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Dear Santa Letter Template

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With the festive season almost upon us you might be considering doing some letters to Santa as part of your Christmas writing sessions. This easy to use template is completely free to download looks great and will definitely inspire young writers to put in plenty of great ideas and effort.
Christmas Activity Workbook: 57 Pages of Fun Festive Tasks
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Christmas Activity Workbook: 57 Pages of Fun Festive Tasks

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This booklet is aimed at primary teachers and students. KS1 & KS2 It is designed to fill 2 weeks worth of worthwhile learning time with Christmas themed activities based around literacy, numeracy, science, art, craft and just plain old fashioned fun. No Prep required, in total there are over 80 tasks for students to complete which are broken into 15 major activities as follows. 2: Christmas Comparisons 3: Tallying Christmas Temperatures 4: Christmas Crossword Puzzle 5: Christmas Connections around the Globe 6: Christmas Energy 7: Christmas Math Word Problems 8: Christmas Compound Sentences 9: Christmas Calendar 10: Christmas Calculations 11: Christmas Essay Topics 12: Christmas Thinkers Keys Matrix 13: Christmas Jumble 14: Christmas writing mega bundle 15: Christmas Colouring Collection Answers are provided for all tasks and can be easily removed if you wish to do so. It has been used by numerous teachers over the years and has always been a hit with students. *************************************************************************** Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW About Innovative Teaching Ideas Terms Copyright © Innovative Teaching Ideas. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clipart and font credits.
Hypothetical Visual Prompts and Ice Breakers
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Hypothetical Visual Prompts and Ice Breakers

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Following the wild popularity of the Visual Writing Prompts Bundle comes **HYPOTHETICAL VISUAL ICE BREAKERS AND OPINION PROMPTS.** Another evergreen and versatile resource with proven success with struggling or reluctant writers as well as being an excellent icebreaker for students and staff. Everything is completely editable and absolutely ""NO PREP REQUIRED"" What you get - Over 101 amazing photos each accompanied by a highly engaging hypothetical question for you to ponder. - Advice and resources for students and teachers about maximising the bundles use in literacy other areas fo the curriculum. - Teaching and assessment resources tailored to hypothetical questions. The resource is broken into 5 unique areas - What If? - Icebreakers - Would you rather? - Hmmm??? That's a tough one - Tough questions for young adults. This resource is ever expanding, and as such you will receive all future upgrade for free. ************************************************************************** LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our EMAIL NEWSLETTER, and visit us on FACEBOOK to take part in our exclusive giveaways. POPULAR PRODUCTS FROM INNOVATIVE TEACHING IDEAS FULL YEAR VISUAL WRITING PROMPTS BUNDLE 110 Reading Activities Bundle TEACHING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & STEM POETRY POWER PACK GOOGLE SEARCH LIKE A BOSS
HUGE POETRY UNIT: 4 Full Weeks & 19 Styles of Poetry NO PREP REQUIRED!!
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HUGE POETRY UNIT: 4 Full Weeks & 19 Styles of Poetry NO PREP REQUIRED!!

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⚡ THE POETRY POWER PACK IS HERE ⚡ Want to make poetry FUN, ENGAGING AND RELEVANT? This poetry unit is a complete solution for teaching and learning poetry to students. ❤️ ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED ❤️, just download and start teaching in minutes. *************************************************************************** With four full weeks worth of work, you can either go all in or return as required throughout the school year. These aren’t just NO PREP, either – our teacher feedback has repeatedly told us these poetry activities are so clear that their students can self-study at their own pace. We have spent over ten years compiling, refining, and classroom-testing this Poetry unit to get it to the quality that it’s at now. It has been used by teachers around the world in various formats and is now available for the first time as a complete solution to teaching poetry in your classroom in an engaging and professional manner. Whatever you need to teach we have you covered. We’ve designed activities and lessons for 19 styles of poetry, including: ✍ Acrostic Poems ✍ Ballads ✍ Clerihew Poetry ✍ Diamante poems ✍ Epitaph ✍ Free Verse ✍ Haiku ✍ Irish Limericks ✍ Monody ✍ Monorhyme ✍ The Ode ✍ Palindromes ✍ Pantoum ✍ Quatrains ✍ Shape Poetry ✍ Concrete Poetry ✍ Sonnets and Villanelle. For each style of poetry you will find: ✏ Visually bright, informative teaching guides designed to appeal to kids ✏ Annotated poetry samples narrated by a professional voice actor ✏ Quality external learning links and resources ✏ Individual templates to download and print in both grayscale and color ✏ Poetry Assessment Rubric to help students produce their own high quality poetry ✏ Curriculum links, including Common Core This unique bundle of resources, activities, and media comes in a single PowerPoint with dozens of templates and documents for you and your students. You will also gain access to a PDF version with this purchase. However you use it, this packet will ensure that you easily meet Common Core Standard 10 for grades one through five. *************************************************************************** Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
Editable Alphabet Posters
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Editable Alphabet Posters

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Take care of your most essential wall item for under a buck with our fully editable, high-resolution alphabet poster set. This is a no prep set for you, just print and go! *************************************************************************** Every K-2 classroom needs an alphabet on display, and this flexible set will meet those needs, and more. As a PDF document, you just need to print and post to have your wall alphabet taken care of. These high-resolution images can be scaled to poster size with no pixilation or quality loss, and you can just as easily scale them down to card size for fun and easy games. You’ll immediately see how having your own scalable and printable set offers benefits that the traditional pre-printed packs can’t match. Want to customize these? You can also download this pack as an editable Word file for just a few dollars more! Like what you see? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways.
Spelling Activity Matrix & Task Cards: 42 Bloom’s Activities
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Spelling Activity Matrix & Task Cards: 42 Bloom’s Activities

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Spelling = frustration for a lot of kids, but it doesn’t have to! This editable Bloom's Spelling Activity Matrix, PowerPoint, and task card set means no prep for you and fun, fast learning for your students. We have aligned this matrix to Bloom’s Taxonomy as well as Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. By following the matrix, students take control of their own learning and decide which activities they will do. It addresses all aspects of spelling in language that students of all ages can understand, so it’s not just for kids - ESL teachers can just as easily make this a go-to resource. This matrix will help your students discover how to use their spelling words effectively and creatively. This download contains a PDF version and an editable Word document that you can modify for any age or audience. Like what you see? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways. *************************************************************************** Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
Alphabet Posters
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Alphabet Posters

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Take care of your most essential wall item for under a buck with our high-resolution alphabet poster set. This is a no prep set for you, just print and go! *************************************************************************** Every K-2 classroom needs an alphabet on display, and this flexible set will meet those needs, and more. As a PDF document, you just need to print and post to have your wall alphabet taken care of. These high-resolution images can be scaled to poster size with no pixilation or quality loss, and you can just as easily scale them down to card size for fun and easy games. You’ll immediately see how having your own scalable and printable set offers benefits that the traditional pre-printed packs can’t match. Want to customize these? You can also download this pack as an editable Word file for just a few dollars more! Like what you see? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways.
English Posters Big Bundle
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English Posters Big Bundle

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Never worry about your wall again! With over 120 high-resolution, vibrant posters covering every major English concept from grades K-7, you will have a valuable reference for your students to refer to all year. We created these easy-to-understand, attractive posters to work with any elementary through junior high curriculum worldwide, and can be a go-to tool for keeping on track with Common Core standards. As a resource that will be front and center in your classroom, we knew it was important for them to capture students’ attention. So, we hired professional graphic artists to put these together. It was worth it – they look amazing. And they aren’t just for kids, either; ESL teachers love them. For a complete table of contents, check the preview file. Some of our major topics include:  8 Elements of Effective Writing (2 Variations)  Parts of Speech Including: Nouns, Adverbs, Interjections, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Pronouns, and Verbs,  26 Letters of the Alphabet in Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting  24 Synonyms for Commonly Used Words  8 Poster Set Outlining the Key Elements of Writing Narratives  10 Poster Set Covering Colours (Colors for those of you in the U.S. )  8 Poster Set - Homonyms, Homographs and Homophones  The Writing Process Diagram  Months of the Year, Seasons, and Days of the Week for Young Writers  Visual: Let's Learn the Alphabet  Parts of a Paragraph  Alternate Parts of Speech Posters  Sounding out Words Chart  First 100 Most Commonly Used Words  Second 100 Most Commonly Used Words  Understanding Punctuation  Understanding Vowels  And much more! Like the sound of this? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways. *************************************************************************** Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
Let's learn the alphabet poster
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Let's learn the alphabet poster

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Learning the alphabet is the first step for your child to learn how to read. With reading comes a greater vocabulary.(and curiosity) It helps kids express themselves about their environment and gain more knowledge. This great Poster will be awelcome edition to any classroom or with it's bright colours and simplicity.
Elements of narratives poster series
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Elements of narratives poster series

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Students probably love writing narratives more than any other genre. It allows them to use freedom and knowledge to share their ideas in their own style. I have put together a series of 6 posters that will assist students in creating and reading narratives including. Plot Details Prediction Setting Characters Fiction and Non Fiction
Editable Narrative Checklists for Students and Teachers
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Editable Narrative Checklists for Students and Teachers

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Teach your students to independently check their own narrative / story writing with these beautiful checklists and rubric. These editable checklists are specifically for narratives or story writing. We will be creating more for other writing genres in the near future. There are three age variations in the bundle for Junior (Ages 5 - 7), Middle (7 - 11) and Senior (11 - 15). Each bundle contains both a student checklist for independent assessment and a student / teacher rubric for conferencing. Check the preview for a visual example. Each age group has been stylised and written to appeal to different age groups. With six to a page you can easily print these out and distribute to students an re use them over and over. Best of all they are completely editable if you wish to change any element of it. Give your students the tools they need for writing great stories.
Homonyms, Homophones & Homographs Poster Series
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Homonyms, Homophones & Homographs Poster Series

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A peak at this list will pique your students’ curiosity and help them see the right ways to write! This intriguing, high-resolution poster set will brighten your wall and spice up your kids’ writing. *************************************************************************** This handy reference set will help your students clarify the use of words with multiple meanings, similar sounds, and different pronunciations. Stop misuse of words and the cut off the dreaded they’re-their-there problem before it ever begins. With eight posters covering 72 examples, you will take care of all the homonyms, homophones, and homographs your elementary learners are likely to encounter. Each example comes with an accompanying emoji that is sure to get their attention and help their memory as well! We are giving you these PDF images in high-resolution so you can scale them to any size with no pixilation or quality loss. Like what you see? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways. Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas Full Year Visual Writing Prompts Bundle Poetry Power Pack 110 Reading Activities Bundle
The 100 & 200 Most commonly used words Poster
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The 100 & 200 Most commonly used words Poster

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Help your young ones master their core vocabulary and spelling by putting these high-resolution posters front and center in your classroom. They will appreciate this handy reference. *************************************************************************** This four-poster set comes in two flavors: a handwritten-style font if you prefer a more natural look, or a typed font that younger students will be able to read more easily. The first set covers the 100 most common words in English, while the second set covers the next most common 100 words. In case you were wondering, yes, ESL teachers will also find these quite useful. We are giving you these PDF images in high-resolution so you can scale them to any size with no pixilation or quality loss. Like what you see? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways. Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas Full Year Visual Writing Prompts Bundle Poetry Power Pack 110 Reading Activities Bundle
Emoji Story Writing Prompt Freebie!
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Emoji Story Writing Prompt Freebie!

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Contains 24 different Emoji used as writing prompts to spark some excellent story writing in you classroom. Just simply print out the emoji included and present them to you students. Each strip includes a Written Prompt and Emoji Prompts based on characters, setting and plot. You can alter this task in a multitude of ways as you see fit.
Vowels Poster
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Vowels Poster

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This poster gives younger students an excellent understanding of the vowels. A E I O U This poster can also be downloaded as part of our literacy and numeracy poster bundles. Each Bundle contains hundreds of posters grouped around a common theme. They are a very cost effective way to buy multiple posters at once. You can find our posters here Innovative teaching poster collection All our posters are professionally designed by graphic designers and are very high resolution of 600 dpi. They can be scaled to suit any paper size and will hold their clarity and sharpness right up to a full poster size. Keywords: posters, displays, charts, printable, hi resolution, 600 dpi, English, Math,