Activity: Make your own font

Activity: Creating Templates

This is a template I created to help who wants to take notes

Name:

Date:

Use this paper to help you write your wonderful notes about our lecture, but first answer this question.

What was our previse topic? And how is it linked to today’s topic?

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Today’s topic:

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Introduction:

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Main point 1: 

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Main point 2: 

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Conclusion:

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Other creative notes you have in your mind:
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Activity: Re-paragraph for reading ease

Activity: Re-paragraph for reading ease

How something is written changes how it is read. In this activity you will first write a paragraph, then rewrite it to increase the reading ease.

1.     Write a content-based paragraph that you would use with your students.

2.     Copy the paragraph and then paste it to your page an additional four (4) times.

3.     Change paragraph #2 to a larger font (as appropriate to grade level).

4.     Change paragraph #3 to a cleaner font (san-serif based).

5.     Change paragraph #4 to increased spacing between the words.

6.     Run a readability analysis of paragraph #5

7.     Copy the results of the readability analysis (Alt-Print Screen) and paste the results below paragraph #5

8.     Use the Tools -> Language -> Thesaurus (or Shift F7) to change the text to make it simplified.

9.     Run a new readability analysis on the adjusted paragraph #5.

10.   Copy the results of the readability analysis (Alt-Print Screen) and paste the results below paragraph #5

1.     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

2.     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

3.    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

4.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

5.     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It records the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

2^nd readability analysis