Word+Processing

It may seem archaic to consider Word Processing as a tool to engage student writers; however, in research with Grade 5 students in Surrey, both boys and girls commented that their hands didn't hurt after writing with laptops. Students that struggle to write 3 words in 15 minutes before using computers to write, are writing paragraphs at the end of the year.

For More Examples consider https://sd36imlexamples.wikispaces.co Word Processing provides students the ability to put their thoughts down without the physical forming of letters. It also allows them to make something much beyond their skill level. This was an example from a primary classroom using laptops. They were studying clouds in Science. Here is the one that I made, while students made their own.

This was the students first use of laptops. We went to a weather site they had looked at already, copied an image, pasted it and then added a sentence. This was very successful for these students to create something that looks professionally published (in their eyes) in less than 1 hour (from turning on the laptop to printing).

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