interact with words

[Rosie MacAlpine]

Before the lesson, type or copy or drag a piece of text onto a flipchart.
Students can
Students can interact with the text by finding rhyming words, words with a certain sound, key words, nouns etc.
They can ID these words by
- using the paint bucket to make them a different colour
- using the highlighter pen tool
- dragging a piece of highlighter over certain words
- circling them with the ellipse tool
- pointing them with the arrow
- using the call out tool to add notes about a text
- underlining them with the pen tool
- using the deconstruct text action to drag individual words out of the text.


Cheers,
Wendy

[simongreen]

Thanks for these ideas Wendy...
This list looks fairly definitive to me,
Anyone else any ideas for working with text?

[Margaret Allen]

Hi

I was going to add this to the rub and reveal thread... but it fits with this just as well. I love this because it works like magic!

You need to ensure that the text is on the top layer and the box is on the middle layer.

Camouflage the text by filling it the same colour as the background and then expose it by dragging over the box.

Scholastic adopted this in one of their pages and I thought I would add theirs rather than one of mine just to show the quality of their resources. [clap]

[Westlake]

To drag more than one word onto the page (a phrase, sentence or definition..) go into Text Edit.
Select the words you want (they will appear highlighted).
Lift the pen off the board, then touch the highlighted group again and drag it out of the text box onto the flipchart page.
Hilary
PS I think this is called 'extracting' text... Sounds painful!

[simongreen]

PS I think this is called 'extracting' text... Sounds painful!
Yes, I've found this very useful when creating sorting exercises with text copied from the internet or other documents.

Extract all the sentences in the text, delete the original text and then jumble them up.

[Westlake]

Another good strategy with text:
Deconstruct the Keywords from a paragraph or article
Use the Fill tool to colour those words in the paragraph the background colour (this 'hides' them - creating a cloze exercise)
Shuffle the keywords
Students drag the words to the correct place in the text
LATER
Have JUST the keywords on the page. Students need to write sentences including those words in ways that show they understand the meaning. The original text can be available if they need to check that they are on the right track.
A good way to model that old favourite "rewrite this in your own words" when reading for information.

Hilary

[Rosie MacAlpine]

Great ideas Hilary![clap]
I had no idea about the Extracting Text :eek: :) - what a quick and easy tool.

[J Boucke]

Margaret,

I love the reveal with the background colored text on top layer and box on middle. My students and I have been constant users of the now famous eraser tool reveal, but this will add some diversity. Thanks