Word Magnet

I want to share an awesome site that someone on my PLN (Personal Learning Network) shared with me the other day. It's called Word Magnet, and it's awesome! Word Magnet is a site that allows you to type or paste words into a text box and then manipulate them around on several different types of graphic organizers. Several graphic organizers are a Venn Diagram, a stair step, a bull's eye, numbers, the alphabet, and many more.

Once you have chosen a graphic organizer, if needed, you select Done and all your text comes in underneath the organizer. The magnets can now be color coded, deleted and manipulated around the page. You can also make the whole group of magnets larger or smaller and add new magnets as needed.

There are many uses for this site, here are a couple:

• Introduce new vocabulary words
• Review vocabulary words
• Identify nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc via color coding
• Compare & Contrast characters from a story
• Identifying relationships between addition & subtraction or multiplication & division
• Identifying relationships between animal classifications or scientific classifications
• Comparing themes in a book

What are your thoughts? How would you use this site?