'Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.'

Below is an example I whipped up in a few minutes using a poem I'd written.

 

FREE online books, puzzles and more

Funbrain offers a range of FREE novels online. The novels are popular, well presented , colourful and easy to read. They could be set as extended reading for homework, extension work (for those students who always finish a task well ahead of the others) or even be studied as a classroom text. Why not prepare your own online activities and questions to go with your chosen novel?

With the ABC series 'Once Upon a Time' about to debut on Australian Television, it seems timely to re-visit a favourite writing activity which was very popular some years ago - the fractured fairytale. 



http://www.slideshare.net/USAteacher/fractured-fairytale



This unit of work on Slideshare gives all the information you need to create your own unit or piggyback using this slideshare presentation.

Fractured Fairytale

by USAteacher on Aug 28, 2008

Left is a quirky example of a fractured fairytale you might like to use as an introduction to the task.

The website also includes numerous features that you might like to use.