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Total
now+ future
|
Used now
|
In future
plans
|
|
|
376
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259
|
117
|
B Communicate Ideas and Info
|
|
|
|
|
-Knowledge of Language
|
|
|
|
|
-Composing and Creating
|
|
|
|
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-Improving Communications
|
|
|
|
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-Presenting and Valuing
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
54
|
40
|
14
|
SPELLING, VOCAB, LANG. SKILLS (all entries)
|
|
18
|
12
|
6
|
Spellcheck (eg. Clarisworks)
|
|
6
|
5
|
1
|
Spelling skill builders ( eg. wordsearches, crosswords, writing sentences
or stories with the spelling words)
|
|
5
|
4
|
1
|
Spelling tests (Clarisworks)
|
|
4
|
3
|
1
|
Thesaurus (Clarisworks)
|
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
Writing paragraphs
|
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
Vocab development (one mentioned specifically IT vocab)
|
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
Work with text: reorganize, add, delete, add quotation marks
|
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
Writing outlines, also document structuring
|
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
Labels for posters
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Grammar/word usage if program is available
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Alliteration
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Homonym book
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Phonics drills and cloze exercises
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Venn diagrams
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Illustrated sentences
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Paragraph frames
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
123
|
79
|
44
|
WORD PROCESSING (All entries)
|
|
61
|
41
|
20
|
Word processing
|
|
19
|
15
|
4
|
Good copy, Typing out writing
|
|
18
|
12
|
6
|
Publishing writing (claris, storybook weaver, etc.))
|
|
10
|
3
|
7
|
Desktop publishing (one eg = laid out project magazine style)
|
|
7
|
4
|
3
|
Word processing project work
|
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
Text and pictures
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Using Hyperstudio to publish writing
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Use templates we have on disk for writing friendly letters etc
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
“Collections” program has computer templates to tie into curric
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Hyperstudio to present new ways of writing: comics, cartoons
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20
|
16
|
4
|
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, REPORTS (all entries)
|
|
9
|
7
|
2
|
Writing reports, writing projects
|
|
5
|
5
|
0
|
Writing research reports
|
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
Writing essays
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Writing articles
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Writing a justifying/convincing essay (how to be a responsible student)
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Hyperstudio report
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
59
|
42
|
17
|
STORIES (in part)
|
|
37
|
26
|
11
|
Writing Stories or short stories
|
|
9
|
6
|
3
|
Illustrating stories
|
|
6
|
4
|
2
|
Story publication (Storybook Weaver etc.) with illustrations as part
of it
|
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
Practicing LA paragraph writing in context of S.S. themes (arctic,
rainforest etc.)
|
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
Animating stories they have read or written
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Writing a Quest Story (using storywriter to illustrate)
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Students self-evaluated own and other students story projects using
a list of criteria that incorporated LA content and computer program
(flip, sounds etc)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
2
|
4
|
BOOKS (all entries)
|
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
Publishing “children’s books”
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Creating picturebooks
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Publishing work for class books
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Write plays
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17
|
10
|
7
|
COMMUNICATION (part entries)
|
|
4
|
3
|
1
|
Speeches
|
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
Email keypals but via teacher’s own email (send as attachments)
|
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
Writing advertisements (Printshop) (one eg Santa’s replacement)
|
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
Hyperstudio project involved speaking, communicating ideas
|
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
Email assignments for correcting/correspondence
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Writing letters to persuade others (eg to mayor and RCMP about problems
at the 3way stop
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
How to contact people/places
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
35
|
30
|
5
|
POEMS/POETRY (all entries)
|
|
22
|
17
|
5
|
Publishing (small) poems, poetry – haiku, or “writing poems”
|
|
6
|
6
|
0
|
Composing poetry on the computer
|
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
Presenting poems with drawings or other illustrations
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Publishing poetry booklets
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Poetry frames
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Shape poems
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Slide show to accompany written text of poetry
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40
|
29
|
11
|
WRITING PROCESS (all entries)
|
|
15
|
11
|
4
|
Creative writing (type not specified)
|
|
13
|
10
|
3
|
Editing projects, also proof-reading on the computer
|
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
Drafts – ie. composing right on the computer
|
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
Writing process
|
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
brainstorming
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Format is an unacknowledged “6th step in Writing Process”
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Peer editing on the computer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11
|
1
|
10
|
WEB PAGES (all entries)
|
|
5
|
1
|
4
|
Web page development
|
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
Web page for school
|
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
Web pages for students
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Teacher created… webpage with LA links
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
As a vehicle to publish products or share with other groups
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11
|
10
|
1
|
WRITING "THEME" ACTIVITIES
|
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
Wp for large music project
|
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
Wishes: Three Wishes paragraph, Christmas wishes
|
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
“How To” books eg how to use word – bullets and numbers
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Haunted House description
|
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Future Media Literacy unit (focused on TV)
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
12 days of Christmas in ClarisWorks, using copy-paste
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Bug books
|
|
|
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