Did you know that if your students, grades 3 and higher, spend just 10-15 minutes most days of the week keyboarding, they will reach 20-30 words per minute within 2 months and it will develop a skill they’ll never have to revisit again? The key is that it must be short, regular intervals of practice; once or twice a week will yield weak to no outcome.
- To learn from the start: Dancemat (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#z34thyc)
- Further learning and practice: Learn Touch Typing (free version is good enough; you can set up your class or parents can set up with their email)
- Further learning and practice: keybr.com (awesome and free, but can only sign up with an email. It has a cool bookmarklet that you can add to your browser to turn any web page into a keyboarding practice page!
- For fun practice: Funtotype.com
- For testing speed: speedtypingonline.com (has passages for younger kids) or
- typingtest.com
Get typing!!!