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Word processing skills goal-setting scaffold
Resource 56 || Table 6.4
Core skills
 Create and save a word processing document.
 Enter text and use different fonts, sizes, and
colors.
 Cut, copy, and paste using at least two
methods.
 Undo the last action that you did.
 Print a document or part of a document.
 Use find and replace.
 Create a bulleted or a numbered list.
 Use the word count feature.
 Align your text to the left, right, or center.
 Create headers and footers.
 Change the margins of a document.
 Use the spell checker, grammar checker, and
thesaurus.
 Insert automatically generated page numbers.
 Insert graphics into documents using clip art
and other graphics files.
 Insert a table into your document.
 Format the borders and shading of a table;
resize and merge table cells.
 Indent a paragraph of text using the ruler.
 Format line spacing to be 1.5–line or doublespaced.
 Other…
Taking it further
 Use hyperlinks to create clickable worksheets.
 Insert a comment (like a yellow sticky note).
 Insert a footnote into your document.
 Insert a table of contents based on heading
levels.
 Use text boxes to position graphics or text.
 Use WordArt (for Microsoft Word).
 Insert page breaks or section breaks.
 Change one section of a document from
portrait to landscape orientation.
 Format bullets as different symbols.
 Use the Format Painter tool (for Microsoft
Word).
 Use track changes.
 Use forms to create interactive worksheets.
 Format a document or parts of a document
with multiple columns (you need to use
section breaks to achieve this).
 Know how and when to use Rich Text Format
(RTF) files.
 Customize toolbars.
 Insert a sound.
 Use the drawing features, including grouping
elements.
 Other…
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Implementing and Integrating
Your skills
Students’ skills
 Format students’ worksheets creatively.
 Keep encouraging more advanced formatting
in all students’ typed work.
 Word process your programming documents—
try more advanced formatting, such as
 Have students learn one new word-processing
hyperlinking to other files and websites.
 Try marking some students’ work
electronically using comments, track changes,
highlighting, and/or sound annotations.
 Produce clickable or interactive worksheets
(using either hyperlinks or forms).
 Try out some voice recognition software (e.g.,
Dragon Dictation).
 Other…
feature and teach it to others in the class
(including you!).
 Have students produce a class newspaper
using formatting techniques modeled from a
real print newspaper (e.g., callouts, columns,
headings, and graphics).
 Set a research task requiring students to
produce a poster or brochure.
 Have students produce clickable or interactive
worksheets for each other.
 Use drawing tools to have students name
shapes or mark lines of symmetry.
 Other…
Copyright 2013, ISTE ® (International Society for Technology in Education), Technology Together: Whole-School Professional Development for Capability and Confidence,
Renata Phelps and Anne Graham. 1.800.336.5191 or 1.541.302.3777 (Int’l), iste@iste.org, www.iste.org.
All rights reserved. Distribution and copying of this excerpt is allowed for educational purposes and use with full attribution to ISTE and the authors.