West Haven Public Schools
Unit Planning Organizer
Subject: Word Processing I
Grade: 9-12
Unit 6: Character Formats and Fonts
Pacing: 7 days
Essential Question(s):
How can I change the appearance of my text and document?
Big Idea(s):
You can make your document look anyway you want with the power of the character, format and font Word commands?
CT State Standards (includes West Haven’s “Priority” GLES’s in BOLD and “Supporting” Standards)
3. Use Technology to enhance the effectiveness of communication
4. Compose, organize, and edit information using keyboard and functions.
Supporting Standards
The ISTE
National Educational Technology standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers
- Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
- Promote, 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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- Viewing Font Selections
- Selecting Fonts
- Changing Fonts within a document
- Copying Font Formats
- Apply a Font to a New Document
- Apply Character Formats
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Recognize what characters to be changed
Retrieve former knowledge of selecting text
Compare Fonts for formatting
Structure text for attractiveness and Integrate different methods of providing character formats and font sizes, effects, spacing and case.
Carryout all Font formatting functions
Experiment with different functions to format text.
Check text and document for correct formatting
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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 formatting utilizing Character Formats and Fonts.
- 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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- Font Group
- Formatting
- Typeface
- Style
- Bold
- Point (font) size
- Serif
- Sans serif
- Truetype Font
- Character formatting
- Italicizing
- Underlining
- Superscript
- Strikethough
- Small caps
- Shading
- Font Color
- Clear Formatting
- Change Case
- Font effects
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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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