Lesson Four – Font Colours

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise typing names for a range of household objects using different font colours and styles to make them clear and easy to understand when displayed as labels.

The class can identify and explain how a computer can be used to share and present different ideas on a specific topic such as labelling objects found in a family household.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise typing names for a range of household objects using different font colours and styles to make them clear and easy to understand when displayed as labels

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the function of some of the different objects that can be used in a kitchen and a worksheet to type and change the font colour of different words naming a kitchen utensil that can be used on a label.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to type names for a range of household objects using different font colours and styles.

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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