West Haven Public Schools
Unit Planning Organizer
Subject: Word Processing I
Grade: 9-12
Unit 4: Basic Text Editing (Continued )
Pacing 10 days
Essential Question(s):
How
can I make my document error free and look like I paid attention to
detail allowing readers to focus on the content rather mistakes?
Big Idea(s):
You
can edit a document quickly and effectively when using such commands as
auto correct and formatting paragraph letting the word processor do
it’s work.
CT State Standards (includes West Haven’s “Priority” GLES’s in BOLD and “Supporting” Standards)
3. Use technology to enhance the effectiveness of communication.
2. Identify and select current and emerging application software appropriate for specific tasks.
Supporting Standards
The ISTE
National Educational Technology standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers
- Facilitate
and Inspire Student Learning and CreativityPromote, support, and model
creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
- Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
- Promote
student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify
students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative
processes
- Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
- Design
or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools
and resources to promote student learning and creativity
- Customize
and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse
learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools
and resources
- Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
- Demonstrate
fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to
new technologies and situations and innovation
Concepts and Skills, and Bloom Levels (BL)
Concepts(Need to Know)
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Skills(Able to Do)
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BL
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- Inserting Text
- Keying Repeated Text
- Overtyping Text
- Reinforcement: Basic Editing
- Using autocorrect
- Paragraph formatting
- Start new Paragraph
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Distinguish the concept of the basic function.
Execute basic functions.
Integrate basic functions.
Recall past basic functions.
Reorganize text.
Implementing the Paragraph format commands.
Hypothesize what needs editing
Construct a document using various commands
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Instructional Planning:
- Instructor
will illustrate commands using a Smart board or Overhead. Instructor
will also supply individual instruction sheets and or Text pages
explaining commands.
- Students will complete a series of assignments selected by instructor to displaying that they have mastered the commands.
Suggested Resources/Materials:
- Computer Lab
- Microsoft Application Word 2007
- Smart board or Overhead instruction
- Separate instructional sheets
- Series of documents including instructions for utilizing Basic Text Editing.
- Text: ?
Suggested Research-based Effective Instructional Strategies:
Whole Group Instruction
One-on-One instructional intervention
Vocabulary/Word Wall
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Enrichment/Extension
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Interdisciplinary Connections
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- Spell-check
- Grammar check
- AutoCorrect
- Exceptions
- Standard auto correct
- Customized autocorrect
- Date and Time insertions
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Creating publications for school activities
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Step by step instructional sheets.
One-on-One instruction.
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