Typing

Objectives: Students will learn proper posture and finger placement of hands on the keyboard.

Student will learn keyboarding skills. Students will be able to type at least 50 words per minute with 6 or fewer errors.

Week 1:

Lesson 1: Learn the importance of Touch Typing view Touch Typing PPT

Learn proper posture and placement of hands on the keyboard

Lesson 2: Take first 3 minute timed test - Test Instructions (http://www.typingtest.com/)

Learn the home row keys (Dance Mat Typing Level 1/Stage 1 -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml)

Lesson 3: Practice home row keys #1 home row keys, #2 key “g”, #3 key “h”, #4

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet1/WordWackerApplet.html)

Take the second 3 minute timed test - review home row and keys “g” and “h”

Week 2:

Lesson 1: Learn keys “e”, “i”, “r”, and “u” (Dance Mat Typing Level 1/Stages 2 & 3 -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml)

Practice #5 key “e” and # 6 key “i”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet1/WordWackerApplet.html ) and #16 key

“r” and #18 key “u”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet2/WordWackerApplet.html)

Lesson 2: Learn keys “t”, “y”, “w”, “o”, “q”, and “p” (Dance Mat Typing Level 2/Stages 4, 5,

& 6 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level2.shtml)

Practice #14 key “t”, #20 “w”, #22 “o”, #23 “p”, and #24 “q”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet3/WordWackerApplet.html) and #8 key “y”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet1/WordWackerApplet.html)

Lesson 3: Learn keys “v”, “m”, “b”, “n”, “c”, and “,” (Dance Mat Typing Level 3/Stages 7, 8,

& 9 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level2.shtml)

Practice key # 7 “c” and key #9 “n”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet1/WordWackerApplet.html)

Practice key #15 “b”, key #11 “,”and key #17 “v”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet2/WordWackerApplet.html)

Practice key #19 “m”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet3/WordWackerApplet.html)

Week 3:

Lesson 1: Learn keys “x”, “z”, “/”, ‘.’, and shift keys (Dance Mat Typing Level4/Stages 10,

11, & 12 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level4.shtml)

Practice key # 12 “.”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet2/WordWackerApplet.html)

Practice key # 21 “x”, and key # 25 “z”

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet3/WordWackerApplet.html)

Lesson 2: Take a 1 minute timed test of all keys #26

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet3/WordWackerApplet.html)

Lesson 3: Take a 1 minute timed test for #27 sample exercise

(http://www.nimblefingers.com/j_applet3/WordWackerApplet.html)

Week 4:

Lesson 1: Practice Flash Cards - Practice typing four letter words

Practice Flash Cards - Practice typing U.S. States

Take 3 and 1 minute timed tests (http://www.typingtest.com/) –

Astronaut, Aesop’s Fables, Rules of Baseball, Tigers in the Wild, The Wonderful

Wizard of Oz, Zebra - Africa’s Striped Horse,

Lesson 2: Games:

http://www.alfatyping.com/?mode=freetypinggames&i=wizard-typing

http://www.alfatyping.com/?mode=freetypinggames&i=kidstyping

http://www.alfatyping.com/?mode=freetypinggames&i=type

http://www.alfatyping.com/?mode=freetypinggames&i=qwerty

http://www.typingtest.com/games/

Lesson 3: Take the final 3 and 1 minute timed test – The Enchanted Typewriter

(http://www.typingtest.com/)