50 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom

1. 50 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom www.wordle.net

2. #1 Use Wordle to write “All About Me” quotes about their strengths.

3. #2 Use Wordle to create a book Quiz or Review.

4. #3 Use Wordle to share criteria to highlight the main areas students need to concentrate on to gain the best grades.

5. #4 Have students compare sizes of different planetsand make each planet a different color in a Wordle.

6. #5 Use Wordle and Titanpad (http://titanpad.com) to share success criteria that groups of students use Assessment Objectives for their class.

7. #6 Guess the French fairytale, then use to highlight key words so students can write their own tales.

8. #7 Copy and paste your class Syllabus to use as part of a display.

9. #8 Have students research and make a Wordle of the different occupations.

10. #9 Create a simple food chain showing representing each population of animal by word size. Create a whole food web of an area or biome.

11. #10 Have students write expectations the teacher has of them in the classroom.

12. #11 Write down ideas or words that were important in a famous speech.

13. #12 Discuss a new vocabulary word and have students brainstorm all the words they associate with it for a Wordle.

14. #13 Create a Wordle to make predictions about the main idea of a reading assignment as a pre-writing exercise.

15. #14 Create a descriptive Wordle to cover descriptions of themes found in a reading or novel. This could include characterization, setting, voice, and plot.

16. #15 Use Wordle for Classroom Polls to discuss their favorites.

17. #16 Use Wordle to compare and contrast themes in Literature. Ex: Romeo & Juliet VS West Side Story

18. #17 Create a custom image header for your blog. Use your class blog URL to create a Wordle.

19. #18 Have students write a book review and put it into a Wordle.

20. #19 Analyze student’s presentation notes, students can see where their words are repetitive and make adjustments.

21. #20 Compare History to Historical Fiction. Remind students to make the genre title bigger by typing several times.

22. #21 Use Wordle to discuss character traits in the story.

23. #22 Use Wordle to discuss important world issues, such as environmental concerns.

24. #23 Use Wordle to discuss characteristics such as what it means to be an American in the various time periods.

25. #24 Use Wordle for vocabulary assignments in a foreign language class. Include the same words in English.

26. #25 Create a “Wordle walk”instead of a “picture Walk” by introducing frequently used vocabulary in a new story to make predictions.

27. #26 Use Wordle to make a unique and personable gift for a holiday such as V-Day, birthday or Mother’s Day.

28. #27 Use Wordle to discuss your state standards or performance indicators to begin a discussion with other educators.

29. #28 Compare articles from several Newspaper sources to compare bias or evaluate credible sources.

30. #29 Wordle a collection of words that represent parts of speech. Color the nouns and verbs a different color.

31. #30 Give students a few minutes to power write vocabulary terms, text or notes into a Wordle to encourage writing fluency.

32. #31 Create an audible Wordle with text recorded to the voice of students.

33. #32 Instead of a traditional Word Wall, create a large poster Wordle to give students a contextual reference of the subject.

34. #33 Pass a sheet of paper around the room with the name of each child at the top of each paper. Have students write positive attributes about each child, then write all those attributes on their Wordle.

35. #34 Use journal or blog entries that students have written to create a Wordle to reflect on the content.

36. #35 Look at the front page of a newspaper and pick the most important/common vocabulary words used in print to create a Wordle.

37. #36 Create a Wordle as an alternative to a word search puzzle.

38. #37 Have students create a Wordle to assess areas they feel they need to work on to identify problem areas.

39. #38 Use as an ice breaker to get to know others in the classroom, include favorites. Can also use as a guessing game to identify others.

40. #39 Pick a topic in Wikipedia, copy & paste the text into Wordle to being seeing patterns and to generate questions for further research.

41. #40 Ask learners to make a list of things from recent work they feel they can do well to show progress.

42. #41 Start a new topic in Math by having students write all the vocabulary words they can think of associated with the topic.

43. #42 Create two Wordles from different sections of a novel and discuss which comes first.

44. #43 Encourage a positive classroom/campus discipline plan by writing important character traits and rules to follow.

45. #44 Create a Wordle to describe a “Student of the Week” to post in the classroom.

46. #45 Copy and paste various author and writers styles to see what can be learned. Identify parts of speech to see amount of adverbs, adjectives, etc. How do author and writer styles differ?

47. #46 Use a Wordle to compare, contrast, discuss, and analyze two presidential speeches. Remember that you can use a word count to analyze and even graph use of popular words.

48. #47 Students create a Wordleof the ingredients found in a product. Students may even be able to show scale of amount of product or color code nutritional information.

49. #48 Make a Wordle of the lyrics of a song.

50. #49 Students create a Wordle to illustrate their favorite artist or musician and do not include the name. They then present word cloud to class and students try to guess.