Digital Literacy Instructional Guide

■ Opening statements to identify the type of information ■ Verbs to defne career pathways or attributes (eg. have, be, belong to, consist of) ■ Expanded noun groups to defne key concepts, add details or classify information ■ Reporting devices to acknowledge outside sources and integrate information into the report as in saying verbs and direct quotes ■ Technical word choices to defne and classify the entity ■ Adjectives and adverbs to answer questions about quantity, size, shape, manner ( descriptions) Performance Skill: Students will demonstrate individual key-by-touch improvement profciency, accuracy, and technique.

Differentiation in Action Skill Building

For Enhancing Keyboarding Skills: ● Guided Practice: Daily Drills, Timed Typing Tests ● Ergonomic Training: Posture Instruction, Interactive Demonstration ● Use of software and Games: Approved typing software and typing games ● Progressive Diffculty Levels: Interactive challenges For Demonstrating Key-By-Touch Skills: ● Repetitive Practice using the home row ● Eyes on Screen: Copy typing exercises, use of keyboard covers ● Rhythm and Flow: metronome typing and audio cues For Proper Touch Typing and Techniques:

● Speed and accuracy logs ● Accuracy focused drills ● Real-life applications such as emails and reports Monitoring and Feedback: ● Peer Typing Challenges ● Collaborative Learning environments ● Frequent Evaluations of words per minute

Extension

● Writing and Composition: Essay and report writing, creative writing assignments ● Research: online research and digital note-taking

● Spreadsheets and databases ● Resume and Cover letters

Resources/ Suggested Lesson(s) ● Typing.com ● Keyboarding Olympics ● Sample PowerPoint Lesson