Vocabulary Activities on the
http://michellechrismon.weebly.com/
• Created by an expert in ELLs from Stanford
University to help teachers with academic
language.
WordSift, continued
What makes it different?
• Can sort the cloud
– from common-to-rare (according to the
frequency of the words in the printed English
language)
– from rare-to-common
– alphabetically from A-to-Z
– alphabetically from Z-to-A
http://www.wordsift.com/
How it works:
• Copy/paste any text into WordSift.
• It creates a Tag Cloud of the 50 most frequent
words in the text.
• Words are alphabetically ordered.
• Frequency of words is indicated by text size.
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What else is different?
• Can mark words from selected word lists
– Academic Word List (AWL)
– General Service List (GSL)
– Language Arts
– Math
– Science
– Social Studies
WordSift
Additional Features
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Visual Thesaurus
Google Image Search
Google Video Search
Sample sentences
How can I use WordSift?
• Lesson preparation
– Review text to identify challenging words or
concepts prior to a lesson, and identify images and
videos to use in class.
• Previewing text
– Students can preview text.
– Identify key vocabulary.
– Play with the images.
– Use the example source sentence feature to
“skim” the text.
WordSift Uses
• Literacy support
– Adult users of WordSift use it to skim text.
• As one teacher said, “I don’t skim, I sift.”
– Review their own writing drafts.
– The creator of WordSift, Kenji Hakuta, uses it to
preview and scout around documents that
promise to be boring, such as long education
policy documents, clicking on key words.
Try it yourself!
http://wordsift.com/
Wordle
• A site where you can make “word clouds”
with any text that you want to use.
• The more often words appear in the text, the
larger they are.
• You can use different fonts, layouts, and colors.
• You can use them for several different
vocabulary activities.
http://www.wordle.net/
Create a digital vocabulary wall.
Examples:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/998999/biodiversity1Fr biodiversity vocab in French
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/998992/biodiversity1 biodiversity vocab in English
More Wordle
Identify the most important words in a reading.
- The size of the words is determined by the number
of times the word is used.
Example:
http://www.wordle.net/show/Martin_Luther_King%27s__%22I_have_a_dream%22_speech
http://quizlet.com/
• Create your own or use other people’s
flashcards
• Many different subjects
– Languages
• English
• Spanish
• French
– Math
– Science
– Social Studies
– SAT
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• Five ways to study
– Familiarize Mode
• Preview the material
– Learn Mode
• Keeps track of your scores
– Test Mode
• Short answer, matching, multiple choice, true/false
– Scatter
• Matching game
– Space Race
• Type answers to questions that fly
Try it yourself!
http://quizlet.com/
Sign up if you want to create your own
flashcards or keep track of scores.
ToonDo
Create comic strips and comic books.
• http://www.toondoo.com/
• http://www.toondoo.com/toonbooks/301
Web Karaoke
Students can compose their own songs/poems
using vocabulary words. The site supplies the
music.
• http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/offthecha
rts/webkaraoke.html
Prezi
• Make more interesting presentations.
• Can use it to present vocabulary.
Example:
http://prezi.com/djbli6ntsrzy/vocabulary-list-12/
http://prezi.com/rfsnedhqmhqa/thoughts-on-using-prezi-as-ateaching-tool/
Penzu
Online diary/journal
• https://penzu.com/home
Make glogs with vocabulary words.
• http://www.glogster.com/
Example:
http://nickjonaslover4e.glogster.com/vocabulary/ - Can you find
the errors in this one?
http://lmatoi.glogster.com/httpmpi8pbworkscomsimiliesedit1new
1folderPeriod2B5refererhttp3A2/
http://www.freerice.com
• Vocabulary game run by the UN World Food
Program
• Different subjects you can choose
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French, Spanish, German, Italian
Art
Chemistry
Math
Geography
• It’s interactive, web based, somewhat
challenging.
• If you’re interested, talk to Jay Kepley.
http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/Product
Entrance/Navigation/navigator.jsp
• Jeopardy
• Wheel of Fortune
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/pptvocab.html
Vocabulary games by
grade level.
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/#