New York Times article on Doug Lemov and Deborah Ball and their insights into improving teaching

"Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like." Might try to run student essays thru this.