Word Processing

Unit 1

Keyboarding

Pacing

Key Language Usage

● One Quarter

Narrate Argue Inform Explain

Key Standard(s) STRAND1 : Students will enhance touch keyboarding using correct techniques. Standard 1: Students will demonstrate correct keyboarding techniques. ● Eyes on copy or screen, not on keys. ● Fingers curved and orientated to the home row.

● Correct fngers are used for keystrokes. ● Key with smooth rhythm and quiet hands.

● Forearms parallel to the keyboard slant; wrists low but not resting on any surface. ● Proper sitting posture: body-centered with feet providing balance and elbows naturally at the sides.

End of Unit Competency ● Students will identify correct keyboarding techniques. ● Students will explain correct keyboarding techniques.

● Students will argue why correct keyboarding techniques are often considered essential for many careers.

Language Functions & Features: ■ Generalized nouns to introduce a topic and entity ■ 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)