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Common Core State Standard

With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others

Typing is a closed set of skills that requires training. Through this sort of learning format, you must rely on yourself to be your own coach and trainer. This means you must consistently provide yourself with discipline, intelligent direction and encouragement. The extent to which you successfully play this coach/trainer role for yourself will largely determine how good a typist you will become!

Here are the most important things that you, as your own self-coach, must always keep in the forefront of your mind. Please take them to heart; these points are CRITICAL.

- No mistakes. Always be sure and in control. Follow the principle of 100% correct practice: to make a mistake is to learn incorrect things, and to confuse that which you already know.
- Slower is faster. Speed comes from certainty. The more you type things correctly, no matter how slow it has to be, the more certain you will be, and the faster you will become a proficient typist. Increase speed only when you feel sure enough to do so.
- Don't look at the keyboard! If you don't know where a key is, look at the keyboard to find it, then look away and type the key. Do not guess; always be sure.
- Relax. No unnecessary or dysfunctional tension!
- Hit the keys squarely in the center. If you find you aren't consistently doing so, SLOW DOWN!!! It should feel good to type!

Construct a word

Sight Words

International Society for Technology in Education Standards:

1.a - Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

1.c - Use models and simulation to explore complex systems and issues.

4.b - Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.

6.a - Understand and use technology systems.

6.d - Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.

ELA 7.Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. [RL.2.7]

ELA 29.Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about Grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. [SL.2.1]

ELA 32.Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. [SL.2.4]

ELA 35. Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.2.1]

ELA 36. Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.2.2]

Objectives/ I can:

- Open an existing Word document.
- Exercise skills in basic typing.
- Identify the mouse.
- Position the cursor.
- Delete or replace text in a document.
- Use the features size and underline from the formatting toolbar.
- Save a document.
- Print a document.

Using a Word Processing Program

Students write a few sentences, change font size and add their name. Students use proper capitalization, proper word spacing and punctuation. Teach students how to use clipart if you have it. Students may add one shape or clipart image. Students print and /or save their documents.

Examples below