Then, we took all the brainstormed words and made word clouds using ABCYA: The kids LOVED the word clouds. I printed them out and put them around my fiction collection. After the kids learned how to use ABCya, I was able to use it as a center activity.
My 3rd and 4th graders loved the word clouds too! We used them to describe themselves as a reader. They incorporated their favorites from titles, characters and genres to where and how (kindle, paperback, etc) they like to read. I meshed this with some keyboarding and word processing by having them type their list in Word then, copying and pasting repeated words and finally copy-paste entire list to the word cloud program. They came out great!
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