Lesson Five – Font Sizes

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate and record how to change the size of fonts when typing some display labels for a range of different household objects.

The class can practise typing labels for the selected household objects that match different letters of the alphabet using lowercase letters.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and record how to change the size of fonts when typing some display labels for a range of different household objects

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify household objects to match different letters of the alphabet, a template to practise typing and changing the font size of letters of the alphabet and a worksheet to identify and type letters of the alphabet to match a range household items.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to how to change the size of fonts when typing display labels for a range of household objects.

This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to practise structuring and formatting different documents to make labels describing rooms and objects that can be found in a range of family homes. 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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