Here's another web site that you'll LOVE! Wordsift.com is initially a lot like the site I shared last week (wordle.net), but it has so much more to offer. If you can project this site onto a screen in your classroom, you'll have unbelievable teaching opportunities. Again, you start by pasting in the text you want to explore. The site will choose the top 50 key words that appear frequently and will organize them by font size from the rarest to the most common words or just the opposite. This allows you to teach the rare words. You can click on any of the words and images will appear as well as a word web of related words to teach the nuances of the word. Also, the sentences from your text that contain those words will appear so that you can explore the word in different contexts. There's a short video at the site that suggests different ways to use it, including making predictions and even using it for assessment. It's an amazing site! If you use it, please share back how it went in your classroom.
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