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:
Use the “finger keys” (http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/isu/itech/keybo/hands2.PDF) while students have the blank paper keyboard, to help students learn what letters are controlled by each finger.
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
More Typing Websites
Enrichment
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.
Even More Typing Websites
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.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