1st Grade Word Processing
It’s a great idea to start word processing instruction as early as possible since students use those skills through all grades. So here’s a sample word processing lesson I taught in first grade. I gave the students a very simple template that you can download by clicking here. It basically just has the font preset for 36 (large for first graders) and has a starting sentence: “This is my picture.” First the students went to Kerpoof, drew a picture, and saved it as a JPEG image (Kerpoof makes it easy). Then they opened the word processing template and dragged their picture into it. Next they wrote sentences describing their pictures. As you can see from these examples (Edwin, Giuliana, Lily, John, Maty, Reyna, Shriya, Yusuf) some students wrote a lot of details while others wrote only a few. But they all got some good experience with word processing and writing.
