Wordle
Word Clouds with Great Purpose
World Cloud created with text from the “Rigor Matrix Rubric”
Consider:
▪ Comparing Characters in Texts
▪ Introducing Vocabulary in Non-Fiction Texts (Newsela)
▪ Comparing and Contrasting Topics over Time
http://Newsela.com
Passenger Pigeons Have Died Out but Scientists Hope to Bring them Back
Copy the text from a Newsela article
your students will be reading and paste
it into Wordle. As students study the
resulting word cloud ask them to:
• Make predictions about the text
• Record any questions
• Identify unknown vocabulary
terms they will find as they read
the text to determine meanings
• List names they will want to
connect with people, (or birds
in this article!) their roles, and
their importance to the topic
http://Newsela.com
Passenger Pigeons Have Died Out but Scientists Hope to Bring them Back
Compare and Contrast
Civil Rights in the US
over a 100 yr. Span
▪ Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln’s 2nd
Inaugural Address, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
speech
▪ Compare and contrast common terms and changing themes
▪ Challenge students to find a current speech or article to add
and compare
Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address (1865)
I Have a Dream (1963)