AS well as entering text from scratch using a keyboard, another skill tackled by Year 2s on the Computer Bus was that of ‘editing’ text once it has been entered.
Too often, children are unaware that alterations can be made to the beginning of a text passage, without the need to everything that has gone before. Simple— but not so obvious if you have not practised it before.
A passage of text supplied by the school is entered into the machine - with an accompanying picture - and then deliberate mis- takes or omissions introduced!
The children then have to identify the mistakes and ‘correct’ the text before then moving on to colour the picture using the Claris Works painting tools.
Word banks based around a school specific topic - such as animal classification - are also used at this level.
