Wordle

I don't know how many of you know about or use Wordle but it's a great site to use in the classroom!

I recently saw this on Pinterest: 

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I immediately made class list wordles which I can't share for confidentiality reasons.

Then I decided to create some with my students for word choice.  I let them each pick a book of their choice.  It could be a picture book or chapter book.  Then I had them search for words the authors used instead of "said".  As they found them, they came up and wrote the words on the board.  Next, I put wordle up on the smartboard and started adding their words.  Here is what we ended up with: 

I will definitely do this again with other "boring" words.  As a bonus, I'm also modeling how to use wordle for future projects like traits that describe the main character of a book or the most important words and concepts in the book OR math vocabulary words for each concept...the possibilities are endless!  Rather than      saving the wordles to the public gallery, I print them to pdf and save the pdf's.