3rd+Grade+Keyboarding

Essential Question: What are the advantages of using a computer to publish a piece of writing? Our first unit in 3rd grade is keyboarding. We will practice and improve our skills by using a variety of resources, from games to Microsoft Office Word.This year, we are going to focus on not only using two hands, but all of our fingers. We want to improve on our speed and accuracy as well.This unit will conclude with each of you publishing a piece of writing using Microsoft Word. Throughout this unit, we will be making connections to writing and typing. At the end of the unit, each of you will be expected to answer the essential question by using what you learned, discussed, and practiced during each class for this unit.

Day 1: To learn what letters are part of the home row and to use it to help us type using all of our fingers



Day 2: To use special keys such as backspace, enter, spacebar, and shift to type and format our school heading using Word

Day 3: To download a Word docuemnt to format, edit, and revise
 * Add our school heading
 * Center and underline the title
 * Indent each paragraph
 * Highlight the main idea of each paragraph
 * Italicize and bold key terms
 * Spell Check
 * Format font style, size, and color
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Add graphics

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Click on the file above to dowload the Word Document

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