Every Friday, the 7^th grade computer classes will be doing a CSAP reading comprehension and exploratory writing paper as part of a class assignment. The purpose is to help your student become more proficient in their reading comprehension and exploratory writing skills. The weekly assignment will consist of:

1. Read a selected one or two page newspaper article from the Denver Post. Dr. Data will select at least three different articles of different topics on a weekly basis so that they are current. Students have a choice of which article they actually read and write about each week.

 
2. Student will write 8 to 10 sentences summarizing the article's contents in a one paragraph format. The paragraph is to be:

 
• Double spaced.

 
• Indent the first sentence by five spaces. Please only indent once in each paragraph.

 
• Use the word processor's spelling checker.

 
• Identify the paragraph's topic sentence by copying it and pasting to another section of the assignment clearly defining it as the topic sentence.

 
• Identify the paragraph's concluding sentence by copying it and pasting to another section of assignment clearly defining it as the concluding sentence.

 
• Title needs to be short (probably 5 words or less), capitalized and not underlined.

 

Hope this weekly computer class CSAP activity is successful in helping our students become more proficient in their language arts skills.

Thank you.
Dr. Data