Title of Lesson: Describing My Teacher Wordle

Grade: 3rd or 4th grade

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Activity Overview:
(about 30-45 minutes IF
students already have
their independent list of
adjectives ready to pair
up and compare)

Do I know what an adjective is and how to use a

thesaurus?
Teach students how to use a thesaurus. Make sure
students know what adjectives are. Use the computer to
create a wordle of their adjectives.
WORK.3-5.1.5: demonstrate the ability to work
independently and cooperatively.
CCRA.W.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by
planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new
approach.
CCRA.W.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to
produce and publish writing and to interact and
collaborate with others
Reading/Language Arts & Technology
Projector
Website www.wordle.net
Notebook paper
Computer for each student (or group of students)
Adjectives
Wordle
Ranking
Thesaurus
Students will make a list of the top 10 adjectives they
would use to describe their teacher. Students will rank
them as well. (#10 is most important adjective, while #1
is the least important).
Students will then pair up with another student, working
together the pair will develop one list using the
information on their separate lists.
Students will choose 2 of the adjectives on their list to
look up in the thesaurus and use words from the
thesaurus to replace them.
Students will type their adjectives into the computer,
using the ranking system as the number of times they
will type the word (this is so that they can see how the
most important will be larger in the wordle than the least
important).

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