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Lesson Four – Correcting Signs
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and illustrate how to use a computer keyboard to practise correcting the spelling of some of the words that have been used on different signs that might be seen in a city.
The class can explain and model how to use the mouse and arrow keys to move the cursor around when correcting the spelling of words.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and illustrate how to use a computer keyboard to practise correcting the spelling of some of the words that have been used on different signs that might be seen in a city
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to correct mistakes in different signs that might be seen in a city and a template to practise editing and correcting words and spacing for the text that might be used on different signs.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use the keyboard to practise correcting the spelling of words on different signs that might be seen in a city.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to practise and refine skills in formatting and editing text in word processed documents to make different signs suitable for a range of locations in a city. 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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