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Can be used as a starter, as a plenary or as a brain gym activity to engage students. You can create your own or select ones that other people have already done. You can also paste in a chunk of text (from a book for example). Literacy – give them a random selection of words in this form and ask them to pick out a certain number and use them to make a sentence. You can differentiate this by allowing them to add in some of their own words, or only use the words in the image or by increasing/decreasing the number of words they have to use. Find wordle at www.wordle.net Want to display your text in different ways or get students to think about how they display work? Try this website. For each lot of text you enter you can create 3 of displaying words, including a nifty little diagram that can show the links between words. You do need at least 5000 words though for it to work! T ext is Beautiful