Today I want you to think and how you can prepare a meaningful, motivating worksheet. I want you to learn some of the “tricks” we can use to keep a child’s interest, and at the same time, help them structure their thoughts. For example, the font I am using for this paragraph is a serif font…which means that the letters seemingly go together…notice how the words are not “really” individual letters, but rather seem to “go into” each other.

This font, on the other hand, is called a sans serif font. Notice how each letter is discrete…it doesn’t really run into the other letters in the word. Often if you want something to stand out, you will use a sans serif font…when you want easier reading, you will use a serif font. Both of these fonts are 12 point.

Your assignment today is to make a handout – admittedly this will be a cluttered handout because I want you to include several things. You must include a “WordArt” title, a textbox placed somewhere in the text, a graphic (taken from either the clipart files or imported from somewhere else), a callout, a symbol, a table, and a hyperlink. Any or all of these little embellishments help you construct meaningful handouts. Now I know that this particular handout is quite messy – but I want you to see all of the features that will make your life as a teacher easier…and learning for your students more structured.

Object	Name	Number
,,,,	mailbox	four mailboxes
(pretend there are two mice here)	mouse	two mice
&&&&	book	five books