Word Processing Formatting Tasks

This collection of word processing exercises provides a step-by-step curriculum designed to build digital literacy for Key Stage 2 students or learners with disabilities.

By completing these tasks, students move from simple typing to producing professional, well-formatted documents.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Fundamental Formatting: Students master essential tools such as font colors, highlighting, bold, italics, and text alignment to enhance document readability.

• Structural Organization: The tasks teach the use of professional styles, bulleted and numbered lists, and line spacing to organize information logically.

• Advanced Editing Tools: Learners are introduced to features like “Find and Replace” for both text and formatting, as well as the “Format Painter” for consistency.

• Layout & Graphic Design: Exercises include creating multi-column layouts, adding borders, inserting shapes, and managing images with custom effects.

• Technical Accuracy: Advanced skills such as using the thesaurus, spell check, word count, and adding footers/page numbers are preparing the learners to build professional documentation.