Tagxedo

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 * Compare / contrast - new way to do a Venn diagram
 * Biographies
 * Book talk / guessing game (Reading Rainbow)
 * Interview someone (staff member, friend) / guessing game
 * Weather - clothing to wear, how it feels, what you would do
 * Pledge of Allegiance - flag - emphasize terms or sight words
 * Use the word cloud as a pre-reading strategy to identify themes and vocabulary words or make predictions before reading a text
 * Analyze the lyrics of a song or dissect a poem
 * Create a word cloud of weekly spelling or vocabulary words
 * Give students a pre-test and enter the most frequently missed words most often, so the most difficult words will be the largest
 * Analyze current events by pasting text from an online article into Wordle
 * Have students create a word cloud instead of a PowerPoint for a presentation
 * The word cloud will help them focus on the big ideas and themes of the topic rather than details and specifics and provide the audience with a visually appealing graphic of the topic
 * Create a word cloud to jump start a discussion about a historical event
 * Paste text summarizing the event into a word cloud and use it to identify the key factors, causes, and outcomes of the event
 * Beginning of year - words to describe students
 * Mother's Day
 * Character traits / descriptors
 * Describe staff members
 * Synonyms for over-used words

101 Ways to Use Tagxedo

Biography

Science notebooking

Compare two documents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson)

States

Synonym word wall

Poem

Guessing game

Field trip summary