It's 4:30am and I'm struggling to sleep. I thought hmmm, why not get this out there and discuss why I think you should use Wordle/Tagxedo in the classroom!
1. Word Wall; start and continue to add words to it throughout the year. Even though you are not able to save and add on it is good to dedicate it to students to recreate and print a new one every week!
2. Book Report; quick easy and you can eliminate words that are over used ie; the!
3. Mother's Day present!
4. Father's Day present!
5. Famous person report...more with tagxedo. Research a famous person and create a word cloud using that persons image/picture.
6. Math words/vocabulary.
7. Lifeskills poster; assign a lifeskill to each student and have them come up with ways to use that lifeskill.
8. Advertising; have students create a product they would like to sell and in 50 words or less sale that item.
9. Wedding present; (more for adults) Using the wedding couples last name, incorporate family words (love, family, life, etc) then send to Kinko's to get printed to card stock of choice and frame!
10. Working with words....create word families!!
I am sure there are many more but these are some of the few that I like to use!!!
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Love the word wall idea! Students could make one weekly based on our words of the week and vocabulary words.
ReplyDeleteOoohhh, thanks for the idea for advertising. I teach 6th grade and persuasive writing is in our state standards-this would be a great launcher for an essay!!! :)
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