This week I tried to use wordle as an assessment tool in literacy. Children were shown a stimulus image of a man looking over the edge of a well and were then asked to write 100 words of character description. We then took everyone’s writing and put it into wordle. The results were great! What [...]
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Wordle in literacy
November 30, 2008 · 2 Comments · Assessment for Learning, Literacy, Tools, Writing, Year 6
Wordle
June 20, 2008 · No Comments · Assessment for Learning, Google Docs, Literacy, Tools, Writing
Here’s a word cloud that I made using all the comments left by children on our school website. I think it makes interesting reading. It also occurred to me that this could be a really useful tool for looking at the quality of vocabulary that children were using in their writing, for example if [...]
