Rewordify: How to Use It to Teach Vocabulary
Rewordify might look like a webpage from the noughties but it’s actually a sort of artificially intelligent powerhouse designed for teachers and students.
The idea here is to offer a minimal-yet-robust tool for working on vocabulary. Crucially, the goal is to make sure that the tool varies text so it can meet the student where they are for the best possible learning outcomes.
This was built by an English teacher, designed to help students by introducing them to new words in a more natural way that facilitates learning, without the grind of forcing dictionary-based learning.
What is Rewordify?
Rewordify is a reading and vocabulary tool designed for teachers and students by a teacher of students. As such, it’s super minimal but does the exact job it was made for, and it does this well.
The system isn’t technically an AI as mentioned above, but neither is most claimed AI these days. Rather, it uses computer-based natural language processing — something many now call AI — to re-work sentences in a way that serves students on their learning journey.
This is built to help students learn new words as well as for teachers to track progress, and even comes with printables to further that learning experience outside of the digital part of that interaction.
How does Rewordify work?
Rewordify is free and easy to use, although creating an account can offer a lot more depth to what is offered. Create student accounts and teachers can track student progress, offering assistance or guidance when needed.
Since this can be accessed from a browser, students can use this on their devices, and on their time, as needed. Teachers can set texts to be worked with and students can copy and paste any in before hitting the Rewordify button to get started.
The original text is shown with the newly reworked version above so that the student can work out, naturally, alternative words used and even variations to sentence structure.
Students can even see how many hard words are in that chunk of text and select how many they want to learn in that particular exercise.
What are the best Rewordify features?
Rewordify might be simple to use yet it has some really rich features. For example, a student can rewordify a body of text and then look at it in various ways.
- They can see stats of how many of each word type there is and more.
- They can share or access the document to use as needed.
- Print or access other learning activities from that text output.
- Or select part of speech to see which parts are verbs, nouns, and so on, with helpful color highlighting to make it super clear.
The ability to vary the reading level of the outputted text is a super powerful feature here. This allows teachers to ensure students are working at a level that’s appropriate to their progress in terms of Lexile reading measures.
Lots of activities are available that can help to expand the learning around a single body of text. For example, there are quizzes, audio learning activities, vocab exercises, and more — also available as printables.
How much does Rewordify cost?
Rewordify is created as a free resource to be used by all. This works on all devices via a web browser without the need to pay for or download anything. For the best features you will need to create accounts, but even that isn’t strictly required to take advantage of the offerings here.
So, without tracking, charges, or personal information required, this is a truly free resource for teachers and students.
Rewordify best tips and tricks
Level up
Use a single piece of text and work through it at various levels to gain mastery of the words as well as the text itself.
Student led
Have students pick the text they want to input and work with that so they can be engaged on a level of choice where learning comes naturally.
Using Learning
The Learning Sessions section is aimed at improved vocabulary and can be a great break-out option to vary the work.
