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WORD 2003
Microsoft Word 2003 is the word processor that we use at Saint Luke School. If you have this program at home that is great! If you do not and you want to purchase it you can purchase Academic versions which cost a lot less than the regular versions. As a student your child is eligible for the Academic Version. I have seen the Academic bundles at Staples and on line at http://www.journeyed.com There are other websites to purchase these versions at. The bundles include excel and powerpoint which are other programs that children will be learning at school. These versions are less than $150.00. If they could come home and practice what they learned at school these skills could really be retained much more then if they just use them once a week in computer class.
There are many lessons in Word on this page. These are the lessons that the children at School use in Computer Classes. Anyone can do these lessons but the saving directions will not apply as only the students can save to the school network.
First
Table lessons
Use AutoFormat, AutoCorrect options and Password protect a document
How to Center Vertically
How to Create a Screen
Shot
How to Resize and Move
Graphics
Use the Clipboard to Copy and
Paste
Use undo, redo, and repeat
How to
Select text with the keyboard
Create Background Image
Grouping in Word
Create a Header/Footer
Create a Seating Chart in Word
More simple skills in Word
Insert URL's in Word
At Saint Luke School we start to use Microsoft Word as early as First Grade. In First Gradeit is just a matter of opening the program, and inserting text such as their name. They will do a little formatting such as bold, underline, and italic but not much more than that. Second grade learns to change the font colors, font types, font size and save files. In third grade the learning process begins to prepare them to do projects and homework assignments in fourth grade and up. Each grade learns more and more skills in Word. You can look on the computer lab page, click on GOALS, to see what different grades will be learning. As with anything else some classes get further then others but this will give you a general understanding of what is being taught.
2006-2007 School Year Microsoft Word News and Project Links
Links to Use in
the Lab:
Simple Word Formatting
Another Simple Word Formatting Exercise
Word Formatting- Directions for Project 1 - Text file for Project 1
Using Find and Replace and creating lists practice exercise in Word
Man made brain text to format
"The quick brown
fox jumped over the lazy dogs"
practice formatting
Did you know the sentence above contains every
letter of the alphabet?
6th Grade Skills Check 1 directions - answers
7th Grade Skills check 1 directions - answers