Rewordify

This week and weekend has been all about vocabulary: acquisition, retention, comprehension, etymology, morphology, phonemic awareness.

A conversation on word class and word meaning with teacher and author Dan Smith (@teach_smith) led to the signposting of Rewordify. With Paul Kirschner ringing in my ears… a short post on What it is? Why it works. How to use it.

Rewordify simplifies difficult English and helps you understand what you read.

Immediately, my thoughts turned to Year 8 and Hound of the Baskervilles. The two classes are hooked, however whilst Chapter 12 was gripping, it was fairly inaccessible at certain points, given Arthur Conan Doyle’s style. Rewordify simplifies the text and you can set the rewording level.

Where the text is available, you can work directly from the text, otherwise, enter a sentences, paragraph, extract and Rewordify will instantly convert. The reworded words are highlighted in yellow, clicking on the word allows you to hear and learn the original harder word. You can also click the non-highlighted words to read their definition.

“Print” offers a bevvy of printout options.

You can change how the highlighting works to match the way you learn. Store, edit and delete your documents. Share your documents and save vocabulary lists. Rewordify will even created word games for you. There is a bank of “Classic Literature” available on the site, which makes of the above features instantly available. Including the Hound of the Baskervilles. A beginners guide – here

In amungst all that is “Rewordo” – for those of you with prodigious lexicon – also a lot of fun.