by Cheryl Johnson
Level: High School Special Education

Title: Using Word Processing to enhance student writing.

One Sentence Summary: The students will use the Word word processing program to learn and practice capitalization rules.

Classroom Program Outcome: Students will improve their knowledge and correct use of capitalization rules.

Classroom Activities: Students will read selections with capitalization errors which are indicated by the Word program. The students will then correct the errors in the selection.

Detailed Description:

• Day 1: Introduce students to Word.
  Students will learn how to: Open the program Open documents Save files Print files Make corrections
  
  
• Day 2: Students will be given a specific capitalization rule(s) and then practice using Word to locate and correct errors involving that rule in selections previously typed by the teacher using Word. The students will then be asked to generate sentences of their own and type them using Word. They will then correct any errors they may have made in their own work. The students will print the corrected files and turn them in to be graded.
   
• Day 3-5: Students will be given a new rule(s) each day until they have covered all the capitalization rules.
  

Time to be completed: 1 week

Materials/ Resources: Microsoft Word

Teacher originated selections for each capitalization rule.