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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:17:50 -0500
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- Subject: RE: cai assignments
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- In case you do any grammar or style kinds of exercises with your class, you
- can use the computer "magic" to keep student interest. Example: have
- a file with all present tense verbs in the first person and use the
- REPLACE command to change all the I's to SHE and then have them make the
- verbs agree. This works well if students are just learning computer
- commands. You can teach the MOVE command by having students jumble one
- of their paragraphs and asking another student to put them back in the same
- order. DELETE is good for making up a paragraph with extraneous ideas
- and having them agree which sentences should be deleted. When I find
- students using You inappropriately I teach them FIND and have them highlight
- and justify or change all the pronouns. A good basic text is the one
- Dawn and Ray Rodrigez published through NCTE a few years ago; lots of
- tips about how to make lesson plans just using word processing. Good luck!
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