Word Processing
October Student Digital Literacy Skill
5th Grade Goals
- Create folders to organize files
- Save to and access files from their documents folder
- Print specific pages/files independently
- Perform basic formatting tasks and learn shortcut keys (font, style, color, bold, italic, underline, lists)
- Cut, copy and paste within a document multiple ways
- Select and deselect text using multiple methods
- Use spell check to edit work
- Insert, move and re-size graphics from the Internet
- Toggle between two programs
Model Tool
- Introduce students to Microsoft Word
- Explain uses and model examples
Guided and Independent Practice
- Whole class poem task
- Independent mystery message task
Integrated Practice
- Planned opportunities to practice word processing skills within classroom lessons and projects