[etni] Fwd: Re: grammar and vocabulary - linking to Jennifer's great activity.
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From: Adele Raemer <araemer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: grammar and vocabulary - linking to Jennifer's great activity.
Dear Naomi,
Very cool idea! And great way to use this webtool! Did you also tell them
the difference between the different sizes of the words, and to try to
manifest that in their writing? Do you have them do it for practicing
reported speech or just paraphrasing?
Kudos!
Adele
Naomi wrote:
> Jennifer wrote:
> "What I do is read
> them a very short story or anecdote, and tell them to write down
> everything they remember. They always have questions. How do you
> say...., which I answer, and that way they gradually learn how to say
> what they want to say."
> I've been experimenting with a variation on that, with a technological
> twist. After reading a text, I made a word cloud of the text using
> wordle<http://www.wordle.net/>.
> You simply paste the text it and choose the color and style for your cloud.
> I then asked students to write something (the number of sentences depended
> on their level) using words from the cloud. The only limitation I gave them
> was that there must be at least one word from the cloud from each sentence.
> A few students tried to recreate pieces of the original text but most of
> the others used their own ideas. They were much more attentive than usual
> at correcting their grammatical errors because we were working on their own
> texts.
>
> You can read (and see the word cloud) about this on the "macappella
> blog"<http://macappella.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/what/>
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