Learning Plan Computer 7 Word
Learning Plan Computer 7 Word
Lesson Plan
15 ILANG DISTRICT, SAN CARLOS CITY, PANGASINAN
Students will learn the basic Microsoft Word skills needed to write a letter.
Lesson Objectives.
The student will understand and can accomplish these tasks at the end of the lesson:
● Be able to Open new and existing documents.
● Be able to copy and paste text.
● Be able to use the Undo/Redo function.
● Be able to format font by selecting font type, size and color and using bold, italic, underline and
highlighter tools.
● Be able to format paragraphs via alignment, bullets, numbering and line spacing.
● Be able to manipulate document margins.
● Be able to Save documents.
● Be able to print documents.
Lesson Prerequisites.
● The Computer Basics series or equivalent skills
Lesson Outline.
The lesson is completed in one 120 minute class session.
(5 min) Introduction.
● Introduce instructor, students.
● Let students know its okay to take phone calls, but ask them to put their phone on vibrate and answer
calls outside the classroom.
● Inform students that they can sit back and watch if the class is too advanced.
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● Inform students they can go to the bathroom, they don’t need permission.
● State/show order in which class will happen. Explain scope of class.
■ Teacher’s Tip: This is generally done better if you demonstrate the process for everyone
first, then have them follow along.
○ Step 2 – Right click on the selected text.
■ Teacher’s Tip: make sure students right click on the text. If they right click on any of the
menus in Word, they get different options.
○ Step 3 – Select Copy.
○ Step 4 – Open the New Document from the taskbar.
■ Teacher’s Tip: Remind students of the taskbar. When you hover on the Word icon, you
can see the full list of documents you currently have open.
○ Step 5 – Right click in the blank space of your new document.
■ Teacher’s Tip: remind students to right click in the space they want their text to appear. If
they right click on menus, it will give them different options.
○ Step 6 – Select Paste.
■ Teacher’s Tip: Running through all the Paste Options is a little too much at this stage.
For now, teach them to select the option with an “A” over the clipboard.
● Comprehension Check: Students copy and paste just the first paragraph.
○ Ask students to delete their text first. Ask them what keyboard key to use.
○ Instructor walks around the room to assists students who fall behind.
● Practice copy and paste at least 2 more times, ending with all the text from Basics Example Letter.docx
in your new document.
■ Step 2 – Hover over different font sizes. Again, we see the paragraph changing in the
background.
■ Step 3 – Select a font size, if you struggle, select size 16.
○ Change the font color.
■ Point out that our first paragraph is already selected.
■ Step 1 – Click on the “A” with the red underline under it.
● This automatically changed our font to red.
● Ask students: “what do you see beside this button?”
● An arrow! Which means options!
■ Step 2 – Click on the arrow beside the font color button.
■ Step 3 – Hover over different colors to show how the paragraph will change.
■ Step 4 – Select your favorite color (not yellow, it can’t be seen).
○ B, I, U buttons
■ Our first paragraph is still selected.
■ Step 1 – Click on the Bold button. Ask students what changed.
■ Step 2 – Click on the Italics button. Ask students what changed.
■ Step 3 – Click on the Underline button. Ask students what changed.
● Ask students: “what do you see right beside the underline button?”
● An arrow for options.
■ Step 4 – Click on the options arrow for underline.
■ Step 5 – Select a different underline style.
● Comprehension Check: students make 3 font changes to the second paragraph.
○ Remind students that they need to select what they want to change. If they don’t select the
second paragraph, they won’t see any changes.
○ Instructor walks around the room to assist students who get stuck.
● Ask students where they might use some of these font formatting tricks in the future. Write their
answers on the whiteboard.
(10) --BREAK!!!--
(10) Bullets
● Activity: add a bulleted list to your letter.
○ Explain: we want to create a bulleted list to send to Mom along with our letter that tells her what
we do in a typical day.
○ Step 1 – Press Enter a couple times to give yourself some space on the page.
○ Step 2 – Click the bullets button.
■ Point out the arrow beside the bullets button. Ask students what it does.
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○ When there is a word misspelled, there is a red squiggly line under it.
■ Step 1 – Right click on the misspelled word (peple).
● The options menu has a list of word choices at the top to select from.
■ Step 2 – Select the correct spelling from the list of words.
○ When there is a grammar mistake, there is a blue squiggly line under it.
■ Step 1 – Right click on the grammar error (been hard).
■ Step 2 – Select the option for the correct grammar.
● Not much changed. In this case, the grammar mistake was I accidentally hit the
space bar 2 times between words instead of just one.
○ This method works great for short documents or for mistakes you notice as you are working, but
it’s not the best for longer documents.
● Activity: Run a spell check.
○ Step 1 – Use undo on your revisions that fixed the spelling and grammar errors.
○ Step 2 – Go to the Review tab.
○ Step 3 – Click on Spell Check.
■ Use the sidebar to navigate through all spelling and grammar errors.
■ Word finds all the errors on the page.
■ If you like a suggested change Word offers, click on Change.
■ If it offers a suggestion for something like your name, click Ignore.
■ If it doesn’t offer a good suggestion, you can always edit the text in the field.
(15) Saving
● Explanation/Discussion
○ We are going to spend 15 minutes talking about a topic that we have an hour and a half class
for. If you have any problems with this topic, please come back and visit us for Computer
Basics: Saving and Finding Files.
○ Save v. Save As
■ Save As is for new documents or when you want to save an additional copy of a
document.
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(5) Printing
● Activity: Print the document.
○ Step 1 - Click on the File tab.
○ Step 2 – Click on Print.
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■ You see a Print Preview to determine if the document looks the way you want.
○ Step 3 – Click Print.
■ Point out how to increase the number of copies of the document you print.
○ Step 4 – Click OK.
(10) Homework
Explain:
o Students are expected to practice for at least 2 hours for each class.
o Every library has both internet and Word on their computers. Please practice at a location that is
convenient for you!
Word tutorials at gcflearnfree.org.
o Step 1 – Go to gcflearnfree.org.
o Step 2 – Click on the Microsoft Office tile.
o Step 3 – Click on Word 2013.
o Step 4 – Assign tutorials on Saving and Sharing Documents, Text Basics, Formatting Text,
Page Layout, Printing Documents, Line and Paragraph Spacing, Lists.
(5) Conclusion
● Go over handout, review material, and emphasize contact info & further resources on handout.
● Any questions? Final comments?
● Remind to take survey.
Appendix
Key Decisions
● We use right click to teach copy and paste instead of hot keys or clipboard options because it shows
patrons a more universally available tool.
● We take a break before covering bullets because it is usually one of the hardest to grasp concepts in
this lesson plan. A break lets our patrons come to it with a fresh brain and they absorb it easier.