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What is the spelling practice menu?
Word Work / Spelling Practice Choice Menu - Print & DigitalThis spelling choice menu comes in both print & digital versions for students to use in the classroom or at home! 20 activities are included. Students are able to show their choices on the digital version, so that could be an assignm
What is a word work pack?
Perfect supplement for Words Their Way. This pack is meant for teachers to use multiple times per year.Flex ible activities to be used over and over throughout the year with ANY word list.
What is a word choice board?
This Word Work Choice Board is perfect to help differentiate among your young spellers and works for any list of spelling words! Students love choice and are able to choose between 9 different engaging Word Work activities! An editable version is included as well, allowing you to easily create your
What is the work menu in Word?
The Work menu is extremely useful, but is virtually undocumented by Microsoft. It is like having another “ Favorites ” menu, just for Word, letting you list documents that you want to keep on a menu. Unlike the regular Favorites menu, it does not allow you to create submenus of documents; nor can you reorder documents ...
How to add a document to the work menu?
To add a document to your Work menu. While a (named) document is open and is the active window, select Work + Add to Work Menu. You can't add a new document to your Work menu until you have saved it; “ Add to work menu ” is greyed out if the active document has never been saved.
How to add icon to menu?
The simplest, but usually the least satisfactory, way, is to right- click on your menu button while the Customize dialog is still open, select “ Edit Button Image ”, and use the pixel editor that Word provides.
Why is my MRU file missing from Word?
1. If you add documents to your Work menu and find they have disappeared from the menu when you next go into Word, then you probably have a corrupt Data Key, especially if your MRU files list is also not being retained between Word sessions.
How to delete a document in Word?
Press Ctrl + Alt + - and your mouse pointer will turn into a thick horizontal bar (a big minus sign). Use it to select the document you want to delete and release the mouse. Your document will be gone from the Work menu.
What happens when you add tenth document in Word?
When you attempt to add a tenth document, it will bump the document currently at the bottom of the Work Menu. Also, if Word is not saving changes to your list of recent files, it won't save changes to your Work menu documents list, either. The menu shown has a few changes from the default.
Why is word work important?
Word work is an important part of reading instruction in the classroom. You might find it during whole group instruction, literacy centers or small group instruction. Developing word work skills will help your young readers.
What are the goals of word work?
During word work, your goals include: helping your children recognize patterns in reading and spelling. working on memorization of sight words. encouraging children to explore and use new words.