Word Processing Assessment
Second Grade

Our television’s broken,
There’s silence in the air,
Silence in the living room,
Silence everywhere.

It gives my brain a time to think,
My eyes a time to see –
I love this silent evening time,
Just family and me.

By Patricia Hubbell

Thinking Time

Directions:

1. Copy this entire page. Paste it to a word processing document.

2. Highlight the title. Cut and paste it above the poem.

3. Use the tab key to indent the name of the author.

4. Save your changed document to the desktop, naming the file with your first and last name.

5. Delete the directions.