How Do You Teach Students To Use Wordle To Illustrate Poems?
Teaching poetry concepts can be a difficult thing to teach students in a communication arts classroom. When poetry is made more concrete to students through visual means, they can better understand it. By teaching students to illustrate poems with word clouds, they can get a different understanding of poetry. *Have Students Write Biography Poems The best way to help make poetry more concrete for students is to require them to research a famous person and create a biography or “bio-poem”. Bio-poems should include character and personality traits as well as accomplishments. Students should prewrite, revise, edit, and create final drafts of biography poems. *Acquire Internet Access After students have created final drafts, they should obtain access to the Internet to create Wordle illustrations. Be sure to check to make sure that your students can access the site if you have web blocker software. Some districts block sites, so make sure ahead of time that your students can access this one
