WordSift as a data-driven learning tool. Activity 6 is a vocabulary activity to identify academic words in a reading or student’s writing using each of the WordSift tools. There are 10 activities in this series.

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Data-Driven Learning Activity: Locating academic words in a text
Purpose: to identify academic terms in a text
Outcomes: Vocabulary activity to identify academic words in a reading or student’s writing
Try it
1. Locate a digital copy of a reading or a writing text
2. Copy the text
3. Open Wordsift (https://wordsift.org)
4. Paste the copied text into the Text area of WordSift
5. Click on the SIFT button
6. A word cloud appears

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7. Choose the Mark Words button
8. Change the option Academic Word List (AWL)
9. Words that are included in the Academic Word List appear blue
10. Click on a blue word in this word cloud (example: issue)
11.Use the Wordsift tools to make definitions for these words