Green River Community College
English as a Second Language Program

Word Processing I

These worksheets will help you to learn how to use word processing.
You will have to type and format text. Please follow all the directions carefully.

Directions: If you are in the ESL 055 class, your teacher will copy this file to your disk. Then you can open it directly on your computer and work on it. If you are not in the class, you will have to type the paragraph in WORD or another word processing program. Follow the directions at the bottom of the page. If you click on the link at bottom, you can see the finished version of this worksheet. Use it to compare with your own to make sure you have the completed the worksheet correctly.

Word Processing – Worksheet I

Stuart Little

In 1945 an author named E. B. White wrote a book called Stuart Little. Mr. White wrote this book for children, but it is a story that adults love too. Recently, this book was made into a populr movie which is now showing in theaters. Now another group of children and adults are enjoying the story of Stuart Little because of the movie, but many people will probably still like the book better because of E. B. White's wonderful ability to write well.

The story is about Stuart, a small mouse who is part of a human family. Stuart is very small, just over two inches tall, but he doesn't let his small size get in the way very much. He has many adventures in the family home and outside also. He has a brother named George and a mother and a father. One time, his brother lower him into a sink drain to save his mother's ring. She was very grateful and called him her hero. His biggest problm is, of course, the family cat. 

Stuart had a love in his life, Margalo a bird, who one day flew away. Stuart decided to go and find her, so he went on a road trip into the country. His travels brought him to a town called Ames Crossing, which is beautifuly described by the author. It is probably one of the best written paragraphs in American literature about a small town. Read it for yourself here.

"In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and highter than the houses, where the front yards were wide and pleasant and the back yards were bushy and worth finding out about, where the streets sloped down to the stream and the stream flowed quietly under the bridge, where the lawns ended in orchards and the orchards ended in fields and the fields disappeared over the top toward the wonderful wide sky, in this loveliest of all towns Stuart stopped to get a drink of sarsaparilla." 

E. B. White wrote about a mouse and his world for children, but the beauty of his writing and the spirit of this small creature make it a story for all people, young and old, who enjoy a good story that is well told.

 Directions

1. Select the words Stuart Little. Then, center the words and bold them.
2. Change the font of Stuart Little to size 16.
3. Put the cursor in front of the word at the beginning of each paragraph and hit tab.
4. Use the spell check to see if there are any misspelled words. (Red underline means a spelling error, and a green underline means a grammatical error.)
5. Put your name in the top right hand corner and underline it.
6. Select all directions and delete them.
7. Save this document to your disk as Stuart Little and then print this paper.

You can check your revised document with the model.

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