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Microsoft Word
Quick Overview
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Objective
• To familiarize staff with the basic functions of
the first four tabs on the ribbon.
• At the end of the training you will be able to:
- Create a new document and save
- Format a document
- Insert elements in a document
- Page layout
- Apply technology use with Close Reading
CCSS
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what
the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from
it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to
support conclusions drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4 Interpret words and phrases as
they are used in a text, including determining technical,
connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how
specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content
presented in diverse media and formats, including visually
and quantitatively, as well as in words.
Home Tab
Font Group
Clipboard
Group
Paragraph
Group
You have to click & drag
to highlight your work
in order to make any
changes.
Ribbon
Click on
launcher
button for
dialogue box
options
Insert Tab
Tables Illustrations
Header & Footer
Groups
Text
Page Layout Tab
Margins
Orientation Spacing
Functions
Click on
launcher
button for
dialogue box
options
File Tab
Application – Classroom Use
Close Reading
• Your purpose at this point is to read as you would ask your students
to read: multiple times, device in hand, with different (increasingly
complex) purposes as you read and re-read.
– First, to determine the general meaning of the text (leaving knowledge
and application of literary elements more or less tacit for now). Keep
asking yourself, “What’s going on, and how do I know?”
– Second, to examine the ways the author uses language and the
discipline-specific structures of literature to create meaning. Your
focusing question here might be “How do the author’s choices help
me understand or appreciate something that I didn’t notice the first
time I read?”
– Third, to consider thematic meaning and connections between this
text and others like it. Here, ask yourself, “Does this text cause me to
think or wonder about some larger aspect of the text or of the human
condition?”
Example of a Close
Reading using Word
Students will open a
previously created
Word document to
read the passage.
Students will use the
highlight function to
make notes to identify
supporting text for
each Close Reading
(changing colors as
they re-read).
Students can use the
New Comments Tool
under the Review tab
to make annotations as
they read.
This is just a quick shot of how
Microsoft Word can be used in all
content areas to help meet CCSS.
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