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Should You Teach Typing in the Homeschool?
If you are on the fence about teaching typing, here are a few resources that might help you make your decision.
For Teaching Typing
"Learning to keyboard is an important skill. It potentially frees those students whose writing output is slowed by the act of putting pencil to paper. This writing effort may inhibit the student's ability to be creative and to do their best."- Keyboarding and Your Child: Keys to Success
Why children should learn to type
Against Teaching Typing
http://ised-l.blogspot.com: re: typing curriculum
When to start teaching/how to teach
Most resources I came across discussed starting teaching students at around 9/10 years of age.
"All kids do not have the eye-hand motor coordination to learn keyboarding skills earlier than that." (Education World)
I have seen typing programs and that some schools do teach typing before this age though as well.
Articles
Keyboarding
Skills: When Should They Be Taught? - From Education World. This article
discusses the best age to start teaching typing as well as tips for teaching
"keyboarding."
Keyboarding and Your Child: Keys to Success
Lots of tips for teaching keyboarding/typing at home.
Teach your child how to type - Offers tips for well, teaching your child how to type. Briefly discusses daily practice, software (gives recommendations based upon age groups)
Typing Words Per Minute Goals - There's a video here, which I didn't watch,
but at the end of the page there is mention of typing goals. While not
specifically geared towards children, it shows what goals they can work
towards for specific purposes (personal goal 30-35, for a job 40wpm, for a
strong typist, 60wpm, and more speeds are listed.)
Typing Curriculum Aids
Several goodies for typing classes (rules and tools, finger position, drill sheet, keyboarding techniques).
Keyboarding Practice
Online Keyboarding Practice, a series of 17 drills to help you improve your
keyboarding technique and speed. Includes downloadable PDF of drills.
Jeffco
Schools
Lots of resources for teaching typing including hand/finger positioning charts,
word lists by grade, sentences.
Typing Curriculum and Resources for 3rd - 6th grades
Loads of typing lessons plans (this link is for 6th grade and up)
TJ Typing Curriculum (not yet available)
Typing Programs - Downloadable (free)
Free typing programs are widely available on the internet. I'm just listing our favorites....
For the older kids
Stamina Typing Program.
Includes plan of study and tips (humorous).
I use the drills from the PDF here,
Keyboarding Practice, and put them into Stamina (under lesson editor) to
create our own lessons. The kids prefer these drills to the lessons that come
with Stamina. I repeat each line of drill on the PDF enough times to make about
160 or so characters and this counts as one drill/lesson for us.
For the younger kids
Animated Beginning Typing from FlixProd.
Simple drills and when a drill is completed, there is a
little animated sequence for kids to view.
Online Typing Practice
Keyboarding Practice
Online Keyboarding Practice, a series of 17 drills to help you improve your
keyboarding technique and speed. Includes downloadable PDF of drills.
Topsy.org - Keyboarding
Links to typing tests, free online typing resources, and downloadable programs.
Free Touch
Typing Program (Online/Offline)
Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing. Can use offline.
Includes French, German, Italian, Swiss, Spanish, Danish, Norweigan, Hebrew.
Online Free Typing
Tutor
Typing lessons, typing tests, typing practice, typing games
Resources for
learning techniques, drills, finger positions and much more.
Touch-Typing
Tutor.com
Touch Typing Tutor Software, Free Typing Test Software and Free Typing Games
Typing Games
We don't really use typing games at this point. As I come across fun ones that I think my kids would like, they'll appear here, insha Allah.
Typing Tests
Typing
Test
typing tutor with FREE typing lessons and online typing tests, Typing
Certification
Free Typing
Test from Powertyping.com
Typing Printables
Sheet for recording typing speeds (in wpm). by TJ
Establish a baseline typing speed and use this sheet to determine improvement.
Not exactly a printable, but you can make up your own for this template. Its used to help the student and teacher keep track of student's daily typing progress.
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Friday, December 11, 2009