These second grade students in Ms. Sweet’s class are customizing and publishing their poems using Microsoft Word. While this may seem like a simple use of technology integration, it requires our younger students to learn and exercise many basic, yet critical, technological skills. Just to personalize and publish a poem, these students must know how to: log-on to a computer, choose the appropriate application, enter text, edit/format text (font type, color, and size), print, save to their network folder and be able to retrieve a file from that folder. All of these are required in the technology section of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS for grades K – 2 as stepping stones to more advanced technologic applications.