Word Sift

Do you ever get stuck in using the same words for descriptions or explanations? Do your students experience this too? Have you encouraged them to use a variety of words in their writing, but they tend to fall back on the few adjectives they already use (i.e. good, fun, nice)? Enter Word Sift. This is a website that will analyze your text (you cut and paste it from your word processor into a box on their website) and it will highlight the words used most frequently. You can click on a highlighted word and it will give you a word map of that word with all kinds of synonyms.

This is a very useful *free* writing tool for students.

Check it out!