Use your text or paragraphs and summarize thhe important information into a shape.  This is the tagxedo for the plot of "The Giver" .

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Examples in the classroom:

(1) Make a Class Tagxedo

(2) Expand Students' Vocabulary -- great visual art, with the original word front-and-center.

(3) Break the Ice

(4) Make a Poem Tagxedo

(5) Start a Class Topic

(6) Improve Students' Writing Skill

(7) Summarize a Field Trip Report

(8) Appreciate Other Languages -- typography, characteristics of languages

(9) Make a Language Art

(10) Teach Students about Cultures of the World

(11) Improve Your Writing

(12) Stimulate Early-Childhood Learning

(13) Create a Synonym Wall

(14) Building SAT Vocabulary -- great visual art