Wordle

I really like Wordle. It makes cool word posters. If you want a word to be bigger, you write it more time. I've had my students use it to make name posters where they had to pick terms that best described themselves. My students enjoyed it.

The only trouble they had was making important words bigger, connecting phrases, and revising.  I showed them how to make words bigger, type the word a lot, and how to connect words, add a ~ between words.  Most students were able to make the more important words larger but only a few were able to connect phrase.  I was unable to show them how to revise their poster and told them they needed to reenter their words.

I could also see using Wordle to make theme posters for books, character posters, Social Studies content posters and Science concept posters.  Here's a link I created for gravity. I'm not sure how that link works.  It doesn't appear you can search for terms. I can't paste a copy of the image either.

My 2nd Post

I've started a blog called Mr. Markey Reads 4 Kid. This blog's purpose is to house book ads that I have created so students can access them on their own time when trying to decide what books to check out.

I normally read to find out what happens in a book.  I like to make predictions and find out if I'm right.   Now that I'm writing a blog where I advertise books I read differently.  I still read to comprehend, but I'm also constantly thinking about how I can advertise the book.  What will students find most interesting?  What can I say that will make a fifth grader want to read this book.  I take notes, and write and revise the ad throughout my reading of the book.

I didn't think I would enjoy reading this way but I actually do. I enjoy it a lot. I'm still spending a ton of time comprehending but I'm also looking for a hook.  It's a new challenge to reading.