Word Association Web for Kids
A word association web for kids is a free poetry tool that turns one word into many. Children pick a word like dragon or rain and see how it looks, sounds, and feels, plus the emotions, ideas, and word pictures it brings up.
Word Association Web
Pick a word and discover where your poem wants to go
How to use our children’s web tool
Pick a word from the categories above, or type your own word in the box and press Explore. Press Random Word if you want a surprise.
Six cards appear. Visual shows what your word looks like. Sound tells what it sounds like. Touch and texture describes how it feels. Feelings names the emotions it brings up. Related ideas lists words that go with it. Word pictures are little phrases that compare your word to something else, and they are great for poems.
Click any highlighted word to start a new web. Keep jumping from word to word until an idea sparks.
Why it helps
This web tool is good for beginner writers because while they might know what they want to write, the words don’t come. It’s called writer’s block, and it happens to all ages, and young writers sometimes need a bit of structure before they can put words to paper. Given the topic, and related words, imagination has room to grow.
write with all their senses. When you know how a dragon sounds and feels, not just how it looks, your poem comes alive. The web gives you a pile of words to choose from, so the blank page feels less empty.
Try this
Choose one word. Write one line using a word from each card. Put your six lines together and you have a poem. Press Copy All to keep your words so you can use them later.