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__**Stefanie Venditti**__ __**Teaching Resource: "Wordle"**__

__**What is it?**__

A teaching tool that I often use in my class is "wordly". "Wordle" is a resource all english teachers can use successful in their classroom to generate word clouds from various texts provided in class. This resource allows the teacher to create word clouds and activities based on terms that are commonly founds within the texts read in class. The clouds created can give greater prominence to the words that appear more frequently in the source text. This activity will allow the students to recognize these words and can help them improve their vocabulary.

__**How Does it Work?**__

Teacher can locate this easily assessable website and formulate their own word clouds that pertains to their lessons. The teacher can tweal their clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes to be as creative as they like. You can easily print out these clouds and distribute them to your students. Teachers can also save their word clouds onto the website to be used by other teachers if you choose. This allows teachers to collaborate with one another and create word clouds for major texts often read in high school's across Ontario.

__**Why it is a Useful Tool?**__

I have noticed that my students enjoy reviewing terms and vocabulary used within their texts through these word clouds. I think is it a creative way to help your students understand and become familiar with words that are often used in the novel read in class. Students can also make their own word clouds as a group or individual activity in class. These word clouds can also serve as a useful study tool when the students have to review terms they have learned for the final exam.

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