Word Skills/Menu

1. Download the second draft "Arriving Home" (this should already have corrections from spell check and grammar check) and open it in Word.

• Read over the selection. Go to a section where you would like to make a suggestion for changes (add more detail, change wording, etc.) Select the section. Go to "Insert" on the top menu and go to "comment". A window will show at the bottom of the page. You can type any comments in there. Go to a second area where you have another suggestion and go through the procedure again. Do this several times in the document. Go to "File" and "Save".
• Now go to "tools" on the top menu and select "track changes" and "highlight changes". Go back to the "Arriving Home" document and go to other places in the document and suggest changes.
• When might you or students use "comments" and "track changes"? (discuss in class)
• What is difference between editing and revising? (discuss in class)

 

2. Look at your Word Check off sheet.

• What questions do you have?
• Using Word "help"
• Try to use during the week what ever we have practiced in class. The more times you use skills, the more they are "embedded"!

3. We have considered primarily narrative writing. Many classes require that students produce other genre of writing. Here is some resources to support writing.

California Website (a wealth of information on teaching different genre of writing, particularly in the content areas)

Nonfiction reading/writing PDF

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