VocabGrabber

A feature within Visual Thesarus, an on-line visual organizer, is VocabGrabber. There is great potential for student engagement using this tool. Here is what the web site says about the tool...

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

The homepage for VocabGrabber explains in greater detail each of the view, sort, and filter features.

Have fun trying it out!