ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Persuasion Map is a great learning tool because:

• It will be simple to use.
• Students can easily see how to set up a persuasion essay.
• It's an enjoyable way to begin writing a paper.

It will improve the effectiveness of learning because:

• It will allow students to see how a persuasive essay is written.
• They'll be able to see how they are organized.

I can use this in the classroom by:

• Showing my students, with an easy example, how to organize a persuasive essay.
• They'll be able to do this by themselves in class with little frustration.
  

Visuwords

I chose Visuwords to be one of my top websites because:

• It's an online graphical dictionary.


• It allows students to visually see the connections between words.
  
• It's very simple to use.
  
• It's captiviating and enjoyable to watch.
  

It will improve effectiveness because:

• It's more interesting to use than a paper dictionary.


• It gives several adjectives, verbs, and antonyms for each word typed.
  

I could use this is the classroom in the following ways:

• I can have the students draw words out of a hat, and they have to write a poem about that word using Visuwords.


• I can give them a "word of the day" and each student needs to come up with a synonym or antonym to that word.