Family Structure Wordle

What is Wordle?
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Why use Wordle in your Classroom?
Wordle is a fun way for students to manipulate and work with vocabulary words or a bunch of text. Students can paste selected words or a piece of text within the Wordle Create box, click Go, and then make color, front, and word adjustments to create their own, unique Wordle. Wordle is an easy Web 2.0 tool for both teachers and students to use in any grade and within any content area.  Wordle can be used for making predictions, short poems/haikus, dialogue reconstruction, revision of text (to assess students memory), text comparison, personal information, or while researching a topic.