Microsoft Word Skills Project (365)

Phase: Learn & Practice

Unit 1: Research and Draft a Document

In this unit, students learn about the writing process as they select their topic, research and brainstorm. They record their research by creating lists of information and cutting and pasting images from a web browser. Next, students write their draft document, create and format paragraphs from their research, and moving images.

Lessons:

1. The Writing Process and Pre-Writing
2. Finish Your Pre-Writing
3. Start Your Draft
4. Finish Your Draft

Unit 2: Manage Document Collaboration

In this unit, students learn about peer review as they share their documents with other students. Before sharing, students restrict editing to comments only on their documents and practice working with comments. This unit is optional.

Lessons:

1. Share Your Document
2. Review a Document
3. Revise Your Document

Unit 3: Revise, Edit, and Publish a Document

In this unit, students learn about tables and revision as they create, adjust and enhance tables from scratch and convert text into tables. They organize information into multilevel lists and tables and further improve their documents by adding text boxes and shapes, tables of contents, and headers and footers before publishing them as PDFs. Finally, students add text to shapes, artistic effects, picture effects, and graphic elements, including 3D Models and SmartArt graphics.

Lessons:

1. Revise Your Writing and Lists
2. Working with Tables
3. Completing Your Tables
4. Inserting and Formatting Text Boxes and Illustrations
5. Adding and Modifying Graphics Elements
6. Edit Your Document
7. Publish Your Document

Phase: Reinforce

Activity: Project Enhancements