Hopefully you have taken some time and actually put a wordle maker into some use just for fun. While wordles can be whimsical and serve no greater purpose, sometimes you can incorporate them into being something a lot more useful. One of the best uses of the wordle can be in a classroom environment either as a teaching tool or as a student assignment. There are a great many things you can use a wordle maker for when it comes to education and together we can discover some of the easiest ways to introduce them into your class.

1 – Student Highlight

As something you can use as a first day of school project or if you use a Student of the Week in your classroom, a wordle is something that you can use to highlight your students. You can have the student spend some time writing out things about themselves such as their strengths and favorite things and rank them. Then, depending on the technology in your classroom, you or the student can use those lists to enter in your favorite Wordle Maker even using some photos to shape the wordles based on items on the student’s list.

2 – Guess the Story

You can use a Wordle Maker to immortalize a story and based on the key words that show up in your wordle you can have your students try to guess which story it is. This works great for both children’s stories and classic novels if you use your words wisely.

3 – Highlight Important Speeches

You can use the text from important speeches in history to show the students the importance of ideas that each speech conveys. For instance, Wordle Word Cloud has a wordle made from the Gettysburg Address shows that Nation, Dedicated, People, Great, and Dead were the top 5 words used by President Lincoln in that speech.

4 – Wordles for Democracy

When you want to take a vote from the entire class you can display the results as a wordle as a special treat for your students. It makes the reveal more dramatic and a lot more fun.

5 – Unique Craft Projects

There are special occasions where teachers need to use a craft project as a gift. This works great for holidays such as Mother’s and Father’s Day where you can have students use some words they would use to describe their loved ones or some of their favorite things then use the Wordle Maker to create the wordle spelling out MOM or DAD and throw some pictures of the children.

So there is just a smattering of ideas that might help you incorporate your favorite Wordle Maker into your classroom. If you have any other tips please don’t hesitate to share them with us!