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 * This week's WEB 2.0 Tool || [|Wordle] Videos: 1.Tutorial 2.Using Wordle in the Classroom || Wordle is a tool that allows you and your students to create awesome "word clouds" using text. It gives prominence to the words that are used most frequently. You can use Wordle to describe a character in a story, make an antonym or synonym word "cloud' or create a vocabulary list. Try creating a Wordle using the text from a poem etc. Check it out! Click on the [|Wordle] link and then click on CREATE your own to make your own Wordle.

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 * This week's "Awesomest" Website || [|ReadWorks] - The Solution to Reading Comprehension || K-6 ready-made concept of reading comprehension lessons. You MUST see these. They will save you a lot of time!
 * Online Project || [|O.R.E.O. 2011] || Join Jen Wagner and hundreds of other teachers for the 14th O.R.E.O. That's the way the cookie tumbles online project. Your class will have a lot of fun stacking cookies while using higher order thinking skills. ||