Keyboarding

Kindergarten
You could start with the blank paper keyboard (http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/tech/keyboarding110900.html) on students’ desks so students learn the technique and proper posture and positioning.

1st Grade:

Free Online Keyboarding Lessons

Peter's Online Typing Course

http://www.typing-lessons.org/preliminaries_1.html

On this website, your son or daughter could work on lessons 1 and 2.  This website also provides information on mastering the keyboarding skill that you might find useful in assisting your child.

Free Typing Program

You can download the free Analytical Eye Typing Tutor from:

http://www.aetech.co.uk/ttutor/download.html

Recommendation:
Have your child start with Exercise 1 – Lesson 1.   Your child will be introduced to the home row keys a, s, d, f, j, k, l, and ; this week.  Have your child spent 15 minutes a day working on Exercise 1- lessons 1 – 7, which will give your child, further practice on the home row keys.  Exercise 1 – Words also focuses on the home row and should be completed only after successfully completing the first 7 lessons.  Please monitor your child by checking their technique and fingering.  Practicing with improper technique and keystroking is worse than not practicing at all.

Keyboard - 2 addicted
Type Shark
Small Campus Typing Tutor   - excellent game
Typing Master Bubbles Game

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/typing/index.htm

This site is an online keyboarding practice. It is a quick and easy site to get into and students type in the various letters they see. There is no login required. This site is for one letter at a time practice.

http://www.senselang.com/

This site offers a quick online keyboarding practice. There is no login required and students type one line at a time and progress from various letters of practice to complete sentences.

http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/instruct/general/kb-rap.htm

This is a fun keyboarding rap/poem to help students remember keys. The poem can be printed and placed on an overhead to encourage students to look up and not down at the keys.

http://Quia.com

This website offers lessons and enrichments for all core and specialty courses. These lessons and activities are created by teachers to be used by students. Various lessons may be used online as enrichment, review for quizzes and pure learning for fun games in technology.

http://www.gamequarium.com/keyboarding.htm

This is a fun site that students from grades K -6 may use to practice typing. It is purely a game and can be used as a reward at the end of a lesson. Students type in letters as they fall from the sky and as students type correctly, letters fall at increased speed.

http://ci.coe.uni.edu/facstaff/zeitz/web/general/keyboardingresearch.html

Keyboarding and instructional ideas, resources and research

http://www.kto8.com/se/

K-8th grade lessons and skills for keyboarding

http://www.trumbull.k12.oh.us/teachers/resources/computerteachers.html

Computer teacher resource

http://www.edhelpernet.com/cgi-bin/ednet.cgi

EdHelper Network is a site for webquests, activities and worksheets for grades 3-5

http://www.assortedstuff.com/top101/

The top 101 websites for teachers

http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/instruct/general/kb-lp.htm

Teaching ideas and keyboarding lesson plans

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/resources/keyboarding/

Keyboarding lesson resources

http://www.wacona.com/keyboardinggames/keyboardinggames.html
Keyboarding games and exercises

http://www.bytesoflearning.com/UltraKey/HTTKB/Activities.htm

Printable keyboarding lessons, activities and assessments for elementary students

http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/keyboarding.htm

Keyboarding activities and other activity sites
http://games.funschool.com/game.php?g=arcade/typememenu&t=j&w=620&h=360

Type Me. Elementary game with three levels of difficulty

http://library.thinkquest.org/18709/data/practice.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0130

Computer Circus, a typing speed test; choose from among a large number of lesson targets

 http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People//rvirga/TypingTutor.html

Speed-adjustable Java applet where students key letters as they fall from the sky

http://www.learn2type.com/

Free site with optional login and very good online typing quiz

Credits: McCool Elementary Middle School (DDESS Guam) Suggested Websites