Computer skills and writing
 | Keep your laptop or computer close by to your whiteboard where you are modelling writing |
| when you are talking about capital letters, ask "How do you make a capital letter using the computer?" (Shift and opposite hand for the letter) |
| "What fingers do I use to make a full stop?" (ring finger on right hand) |
| "How do you make a
space?" (one press on the space bar with your thumb) |
|
 whatever
your teaching point is in writing think about how the children would need
to do it in a word processor and make that a computer teaching point i.e.
"What is a synonym for the word 'nice'?" (right click on the word and
select synonyms in the sub menu) |
Remember 'Whatever your teaching point is in Writing could also be a computer skills teaching point!'