Look around and Wordles are everywhere. Using a Wordle can allow a teacher or a student to use technology to create a word cloud from passages of text, which can be used for endless educational purposes. Wordles lends itself particularly well to vocabulary and reading lessons (Dabbs, 2011). Teacher created Wordles can be used for pre-teaching vocabulary, introducing a theme or a concept at a quick glance, to offer choice to students for choose vocabulary words to focus upon throughout a reading, lesson or unit. Students can be assigned to create a Wordle as an assessment or project to demonstrate evidence of learning. This particular Wordle utilizes the unit vocabulary for the WebQuest: Survivors. The Wordle will be used first as a teaser to the unit, be used throughout the unit to review and focus on vocabulary and it has been specifically created in black and white so that students can use it to color code their mastery of vocabulary throughout the unit. Wordle activities can help to deepen understanding and increase motivation using technology, creativity, and increase personalization for all students.
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