Day 9

Lesson Plan #5 Editing a Document

Objective 5: Working independently, eighth grade learners will edit the text of all

documents that they type in one out of one attempt using the spellcheck, grammar check, and

word count tools located in the toolbar without being prompted.

Resources or Materials Needed: Desktop computer for each student

Time: 60 minutes

Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activities:

1. Ask students to power on their computers

2. Have students locate the start menu and click on the word processing software

3. Once the software loads, have students open a new document and type a paragraph with

errors in spelling, grammar, spacing, etc. (see appendix D) (Autumn fun 2019)

Step 2: Content Presentation:

Using this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h20EBvn1UCY (“All

GCFGlobal.org® content is available for free at edu.gcfglobal.org.”):

4. Teach students how to use the spell check feature in the toolbar

5. Teach students rules for proper spacing, indentation, punctuation, margins, headers and

footers.

6. Teach students how to find the word count for their document.

7. Teach students how to right click on a word that is underlined and then how to choose a

correction from the options listed.

Step 3: Learner Participation:

Students will use the tools taught today to correct the paragraph that they typed.
 Step 4: Assessment: Instructor will move around the room informally assessing that

each student is using the correction tools properly.

Step 5: Follow-Through Activities: Students will use the correction and formatting

tools each time they create documents in the word processing software.

Lesson Plan Summary: The learning theory that most aligns with this lesson plan is

behaviorism. The strategies of instruction associated with behaviorism are most appropriate for

teaching objective five. Students learn the process and repeat it each time they type a

document.
 Paragraph to Edit

Take time to enjoy some of the sights and activitie that come with the autumn seson.

Have you ever picked apples at a orchard or jumped in a pile of leafs that have fallen from

the trees. May be you have use a pumpkin, guord, or scarecrow to decorate your home. If the

whether is starting to got colder where you live, try bundling up and going on a hike.