Introducing the Word Processor
Submitted by: Judith Kerns and Deborah Semler
School, Affiliation: Hickory Elementary School, Williamsport, MD
Subject Area: Language Arts
Major Objectives:
*To learn to keyboard on the computer *To use the word processor as an alternative to
pencil and paper tasks
Grade Level: 1
Materials:
*One or multiple computers; printer *Software: keyboarding; word processing
*Teacher-developed activities, worksheets, bulletin board, and word processing files
Time Required: varies
Activities and Procedures:
*Use a variety of activities to acquaint the students with the keyboard. Suggestions
include:
- Keyboard Bingo: use keyboard playing cards;
- Sticky Fingers: students toss a velcro ball at a designated key on a large replica of a
computer keyboard;
- Cut and Paste Keyboard: students complete a worksheet requiring them to supply missing
letters and numerals on a keyboard.
- To teach keyboarding, word processing and related vocabulary, display a menu, shift key,
space bar, and other related terms on a bulletin board display.
- Have students practice keyboarding using the keyboarding software.
- Have the students use the word processing software and teacher-developed word processing
files to learn editing functions:
- Space bar - present them with a series of numbers, letters, or words and have them use
the arrow keys and space bar to move the cursor around and insert spaces as needed;
- Delete key - present them with a series of numbers, letters or words and have them use
the delete key to remove the item that doesn't belong; and
- Insert key - present them with a sequence of numbers or letters with one missing and
replaced by an asterisk; have students delete the asterisk and insert the missing item in
the correct position.
- Have them use word processing files to complete skill work exercises in reading, such as
sentence completion or vocabulary review exercises; in spelling, such as unscrambling
scrambled words; and in writing, such as completing sentence starters.
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