Lesson Three – Font Colours

This computing teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise typing and editing words using a computer keyboard using a range of font styles showing the matching colours of different animals.

The class can identify and model how to type the names of different shapes on a word processed document using the correct matching font colours for each word.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise typing and editing words using a computer keyboard using a range of font styles showing the matching colours of different animals

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and explain how to type words using a range of colours, a set of cards to match the names of different types of animals with their common colours and a template to practise typing the names of a range of shapes using a selection font colours.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to type and edit words on the computer using a range of different font styles.

This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to practise structuring and formatting different word processed documents to label a range of objects and locations around the classroom. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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