First
Grade Language Arts
IV. SPELLING
A. Write all the upper and lower case
letters of the alphabet.
B. Use phonics knowledge and basic
patterns to spell three and four-letter words accurately
(e.g., CVC= hop; CVCe=hope).
C. Introduce basic elements of phonetic
analysis (common letter/sound relationships) and
structural analysis (syllables and basic prefixes and
suffixes).
NPS Technology
Scope & Sequence Objectives
(Numbers
correlate to the Scope and Sequence matrix.)
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 31, 32, 33, 34, 86, 87
- Review with students that the work
they do on a computer can be saved and retrieved
for use at a later time. Explain that when they
open files from a network they may encounter
files that don't belong to them. Create a class
list of things that they should and shouldn't do
with or to the files they may find. Use this
opportunity to introduce NPS Wide Area Network
policies.
- Have students turn their computers
on.
- Discuss the placement of files on
a floppy disk, computer hard drive or network
drive. Use the metaphor of searching for a
document in a file cabinet with folders.
- Have students find their
previously saved list of spelling words (See
Spelling Activity #1).
- Demonstrate how to double-click on
the icon to open the file.
- Have students open the file.
- Demonstrate how to click-hold-drag
to select text.
- Have students click-hold-drag to
select the words on their list.
- Demonstrate the use of the font
size button on the toolbar.
- Have students change the font size
of their spelling list.
- Demonstrate the use of the Print
shortcut button in the toolbar. (The Print
button will automatically print the whole
document. To print only certain pages, use the
File>Print menu.)
- Have students print their list to take home
- You may want to have students repeat Spelling Activity #1 and 2 on their own for future spelling lists.
- You may want to have students repeat steps 2-12 above using other buttons from the toolbar (bold, font style, color, italic, underline, etc.)
