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Hello, everybody.

It's Mrs. Franzsen here.

Welcome to Computing.

It's really good to see you here today.

We are going to be learning all about digital writing today, so come on in and let's get started.

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to add and remove text using a keyboard.

Let's go through our keywords for today.

We're going to do my turn, your turn for this.

That means that I'm going to say the keyword, then I want you to say the keyword.

Then I want you to listen carefully while I explain the keyword.

Okay, ready? So here we go.

The first word, my turn.

Cursor.

Your turn.

That's great.

In a word processor, the blinking line where text will appear is the cursor.

Next word, my turn.

Spacebar.

Your turn.

That's great.

The spacebar is the key that makes a space in between words.

Next word, my turn.

Enter.

Your turn.

That's good.

Enter is the key that starts a new line.

Next word, my turn.

Backspace.

Your turn.

That's great.

Backspace is the key that removes the last letter or space.

In the first part of the lesson, we are going to learn about controlling the cursor.

Are you ready? Let's go.

We use a keyboard to write text on a computer.

So you need to remember that your keyboard might look a bit different from mine, and that's okay.

You can get keyboards in different colours, different sizes.

Sometimes they might have slightly different buttons on, and that is fine.

A word processor is a tool for writing.

Word processors are used to create documents and text.

So in my image here you can see I have a word processor open.

The title is My book review, and there is a big, blank page where I would write my text.

We use letter keys to type letters, and the letter keys are arranged in the middle of a keyboard.

We've highlighted them here in purple.

And they have a special order as well.

They do not go in alphabetical order.

We use number keys to type numbers.

The number keys are at the top of the keyboard in a line, and you might notice something interesting.

After the nine key, there is a zero key because we can use the zero to make other numbers.

So if we wanted to type 10, we would use the number one key and the zero key.

Let's do a quick check here.

We use the number keys to, A, type letters; B, type numbers; or C, type capital letters.

Pause the video here to think about the answer.

Welcome back.

We use the number keys to, B, type numbers.

Well done if you got that one correct.

Good work.

Laura says, "I use a mouse to point and click on my computer." Here we have a photograph of someone's hand on a mouse.

Andeep says, "I tap on the touchscreen to use my tablet." And you can see in the photo someone holding a tablet and tapping on the touch.

I wonder if you use a mouse or you use a touchscreen.

The blinking line on the screen is called the cursor.

That was one of our keywords.

Did you hear it, cursor? It shows us where the next letter or number will go when we type.

And you can see we've labelled the cursor here.

The flashing line is the cursor.

In a document, when you click with the mouse or tap on the touchscreen, it moves the cursor, and you can see an example of that here.

Everywhere I click, the cursor moves.

Some keyboards have arrow keys.

You can use the arrow keys to move the cursor too.

So in this example you can see I'm tapping on the arrow keys and it moves the cursor around in the sentence.

When you press a key on the keyboard, the letter appears where the cursor is blinking.

And you can see an example here as I type H-I, hi, the cursor moves.

The cursor moves forward as we type a letter.

So as I type this word hello, you can see the cursor moving forward.

Let's do a check here.

On a computer, which tool do you use to move the cursor on the screen? Is it A, B, or C? Pause the video here to think about your answer.

Welcome back.

Well done for thinking about that question.

Which tool do you use to move the cursor on the screen? The answer is A.

Well done if you got that one right.

Okay, it's time to do a task now.

In this task you have to click to move the cursor to the right place.

Finish the sentences by writing a word that matches the picture.

So you can see there are three pictures here.

So there are three sentences that are not finished and we have to fill in a word to finish the sentence, and the word has to match the picture.

So the first sentence reads, "The teddy is brown." And then underneath that there is a sentence that reads, "The teddy is." So there is a gap there.

Can you think about what word might go in that gap? So that is the task today, clicking to move the cursor and then filling in the word that matches the picture.

It's time to go and work on your task now.

Off you go, and I'll be here when you get back to go through the answers.

Welcome back.

You were working so hard on those tasks.

Thank you for all of your effort today.

So the instructions for this task say to move the cursor by clicking in the right place and finish the sentences by writing a word that matches the picture.

So for our first sentence it says, "The teddy is brown." And you had to click to move the cursor to the correct place and add the word brown just like I had in the top sentence.

The next sentence said, "The cat is on the mat." Well done if you typed the word mat into your computer to finish the second sentence.

And for the third sentence it said, "The dog runs." And we were typing runs into the gap to finish the sentence.

Well done for all of your hard work on that task.

In the second part of the lesson, we are going to be learning about adding a space in text.

How would you write these words on a computer? The words are cat and dog.

Have a look at the computer keyboard and see if you can come up with your answer.

Good thinking about that question.

So some of you might have said this, so I'm going to shade in the correct letters now.

C-A-T, we've got the letters for cat.

And D-O-G, we've got the letters for dog as well.

Just like that, that is how we would use a computer keyboard to write these words.

Jacob says, "I pressed the keys C-A-T-D-O-G." Is this how you would write this word on paper? This is how it looks typed in on the computer.

What has Jacob missed out? There's something important.

I wonder if you've noticed.

If we wrote the words cat dog on paper, we would put a space in between them.

Well done.

So you can see in my example here, I've written cat dog, but I've put a finger space in between.

How would you make a space in text on a computer? Pause the video here to think about your answer.

This is the spacebar on a computer keyboard.

That is how we would make a space.

Let's do a check here.

What does the spacebar do? Does it A, adds a space between words; B, deletes a word; or C, makes the text look bigger? Pause the video here to think about your answer.

Good work thinking about your answer.

The answer is A, the spacebar adds a space between words.

Well done if you got that one right.

How would you start writing on a new line on a computer? You need to press the enter key to start a new line.

What does the enter key do? A, adds a space between words; B, starts a new line; or C, removes a letter? Pause the video here to think about the correct answer.

Welcome back.

Well done for thinking about your answer.

The correct answer is B.

The enter key starts a new line.

Well done if you got that right.

Right, we are on a new task now.

Sofia has written some sentences.

Help Sofia add spaces to the sentences.

Move the cursor to the right places and use the spacebar.

So you can see in the example here that in the word processor, Sofia has written three sentences, but there's something not quite right.

The spaces are missing.

So your job is to move the cursor to the correct places and use the spacebar to add some spaces.

Off you go and work on the task, and I'll be here when you get back.

Welcome back.

Sofia says, "I had forgotten to use the spacebar to add spaces in between the words." So with the spaces put in, our sentences are so much easier to read.

The first sentence says, "Sam plays with the dog." The next sentence reads, "Laura is going swimming." And our last sentence says, "On Monday, Andeep is going to London." Well done for all of your hard work on that task.

In the last part of the lesson, we are going to be looking at removing text.

What mistake has Andeep made in the document? How can he fix it? Let's have a close look at this word processor screen.

There is a sentence there.

I wonder if you can read it and see if you can find the mistake.

You can pause the video here to try and find the mistake and think about how Andeep could fix it.

This is the backspace key.

It helps fix mistakes by taking away letters we don't want.

Sometimes the backspace key has got an arrow on it.

Laura says, "Spelling mistakes can have a coloured line underneath them." And you can see in the image here, one of the words has got a line underneath it.

I wonder if you see the mistake.

Jacob says, "You can fix mistakes by using the backspace key." So the first thing to do would be to move the cursor so it's in the right place next to the word.

There we go.

Now I'm going to use the backspace key, take away the letters that are in the wrong place.

Now I'm going to type the new letters here.

So I need a A and a T.

Great.

Now my sentence is correct.

The cat sat on the mat.

Let's do a check here.

True or false? The backspace key starts a new line.

Pause the video here to think about your answer.

Well done for thinking about that question.

The answer is false.

Why? The backspace key takes away letters.

Well done if you got that one right.

It's time for a task now.

Some of the sentences have some mistakes.

Fix your sentences to match the correct ones.

So the correct sentences are in the boxes, and you need to move the cursor, add spaces, and fix spelling mistakes so that the sentences under the boxes match the ones in the box.

It's time to go and work on this task now.

You can pause the video here, and when you get back, we can go through the answers together.

Well done for all of your hard work in that task.

Let's look at the answers.

So for the first question, I am moving the cursor with the mouse and then adding a space with the spacebar in between each word to make it match the sentence in the box.

For the next one, I'm adding some spaces, but also using the backspace button to take away some extra letters that are in the sentence.

And for the last one, I have to add some missing letters.

There's a missing A in and, and then there's a spelling mistake in this word.

So I'm going to use backspace to take it away and type in the word again, are, on my keyboard.

There's also an extra letter in the word swimming.

Just like that.

You've worked really hard on your task today.

Thank you for all of your effort in this lesson.

Let's summarise our learning.

The blinking line on the screen is called the cursor.

The cursor can be moved with the mouse or the arrow keys on the keyboard.

The spacebar adds a space between words on the computer.