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Color

• Create your own color scheme by selecting color, custom color palette, and then edit custom palette from the toolbar.

• Select desired number of colors, then choose a background color and coordinating word colors.

Layout Options

• Arrange words in alphabetical order

• Spread words ‘’every which way’’• Create rounder or straighter edges• Make words horizontal, vertical, or

both

Language

• Remove common words from a number of languages

• View alphabetical word count of all words in Wordle

• Make all words upper or lower case

Saving a Larger Wordle

• Scroll up or down so that your Wordle is entirely visible on the screen

• Press Fn and Prnt Scrn to acquire a screen shot of the page

• Paste the image into Paint or any photo editing program

• Crop the image to remove everything outside the Wordle

• Save image as a .jpg

Image Preferences

• To increase the size of a word, enter it more times in your list

• To keep two words together in your Wordle, link them with a tilde (~); it won’t show in your Wordle

• To remove an undesired word from your Wordle, right click on it, then delete

Ideas for Wordles

• Lists of students’ strengths• Lists of student expectations• Paste student work into a Wordle to have

them analyze it for repetition• Create Wordles of character traits from

literature• Lists of characteristics from various eras• Word walls

More Ideas

• Create special occasion Wordles• Create Wordles of standards• Create spelling list Wordles• Create Wordles with the same words in two

languages and have students connect each word with its translation

• Create Wordles of value terms for character education

Still More Ideas

• Create a Wordle of authors for a specific genre

• Create a Wordle of titles in a specific series