Using Visuwords with fifth grade

See the color coded "key " at the  bottom of the screen

Visuwords is an online dictionary/thesaurus which gives a visual color coded representation of a word and its relationship to other words. http://www.visuwords.com/ We have tried it out in our new computer lab with great success! First we gathered words that had stumped us when reading together. Each child typed the words into Visuwords during lab time. I made up a worksheet they could record their findings on. Much more interesting way of learning about words than the traditional way: look it up in the dictionary.  I put Visuwords on my Symbaloo. (See previous post.)Christine