Keyboarding Teacher Resources

  Why can’t you use a T-Rex as a typing teacher? Because their typing skills are all thumbs! Bring excitement to your keyboarding class with our Dino-Mite Typing Challenge! Students...

Giving teachers a holiday gift is an excellent way for school leaders to show their appreciation for the tireless effort educators put into making their school thrive. A thoughtful token...

Explore the benefits of a hands-on approach to teaching keyboarding in the classroom. This guide offers practical, step-by-step instructions for incorporating dictation exercises and proven techniques to boost student engagement...

In an age dominated by digital technology, the debate between handwriting and typing has never been more relevant. As we navigate through keyboards and touchscreens, we must ask ourselves: which...

  Purpose: This activity is intended to foster friendly competition between classmates by typing an alphabet made out of brand logos. This assignment combines brand recognition with typing skills, challenging students...

This fun typing lesson plan is designed to elevate students' composition skills while incorporating the use of texting language to captivate their interest. The focus is on mastering fundamental grammar...

Reinforce new letter keys with a fun tongue twister activity in your typing class. Energize students with a quick warm-up, then guide them to create tongue twisters using the new...

Are you ready to elevate your April Fools' Day game? Discover playful and hilarious pranks perfect for your typing classroom! From transforming keyboards into vibrant gardens to unleashing typing ghosts...

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, typing speed and accuracy are more essential than ever. Whether you're a professional writer, a student rushing to meet deadlines, or simply someone who wants...

In this festive St. Patrick's Day keyboarding lesson plan, typing students dive into the magic of solving 12 riddles while honing their typing skills. Using word processing software, students type...

In the world of literature, each author possesses a distinct voice that sets them apart. Beyond the choice of words and narrative style, even the physical act of typing can...

Provide typing students with engaging keyboarding practice in typing sentences with fortune cookie messages. This keyboarding lesson plan will fill your keyboarding class with chuckles and lots of keyboarding energy.

What Are Keyboarding Covers and Skins? At the core, instructional keyboard covers are a simple concept. By “hiding” the keys from a student typist, a typing teacher induces a physical...

Exciting job opportunities at the North Pole in Santa's Toy Workshop are now open! Santa is searching for creative and detail-oriented keyboarding students to contribute to the magic of Christmas,...

In today's world of texting and messaging, autocorrect has become a must-have feature, seamlessly blending into our daily digital chats. Initially designed to fix those annoying typos, autocorrect has really...

Get ready to ignite your students' creativity with a Halloween Keyboarding activity! They'll start by typing the beginning of their own spooky stories, then trade seats with peers to keep the...

Skeletons, ghosts, mummies, and more!  Help your students have a fun and skill building Happy Halloween! This activity is intended to foster friendly competition between classmates by typing a Halloween poem, one stanza at...

In today's digital age, typing has become an indispensable skill, not only for students but also for educators like you. Whether you're preparing lesson plans, creating handouts, or communicating with parents...

  Purpose:  This activity is intended to foster friendly competition between classmates by adapting the game of basketball to motivate students to excel in their typing speeds.  The faster a...

Students with Strong Keyboarding Skills Perform better on ACT Testing It may or may not come as a surprise that a strong typing skill has a positive impact on a...

Keyboarding Shortcuts & Productivity What are keyboard shortcuts? Your computer has many applications, and you probably have your own ways of completing most tasks. However, your computer has many of...

I’d been teaching several years when I got a new colleague, who turned my world around on how to teach keyboarding. Her words of wisdom  caused me to completely re-vamp...

Purpose: This is a great activity to do on or around Valentine’s Day.  It will give students practice in composing sentences and apply their touch typing skills .  In the...

Purpose:  As keyboarding teachers, we know it’s sometimes nice to take a break and step away from the online keyboarding program we may be using in our classrooms.  While online...

It’s nice that online typing programs and typing tests used in today’s keyboarding classrooms will automatically calculate students WPM.  But, it’s also important (and fun!) to teach students how the...

 Each exercise challenges students to “think while typing”--provide the missing vowels, insert the missing words, delete the repeated words, untangle words, provide capital letters, etc. to the copy.

  Objective:  To improve typing speed by using quick and short bursts of finger energy. Procedure:  Print and distribute one or more of the following handouts: Quick Drills Sheet–Left Hand Quick...

A strong keyboarding skill is arguably the best technical skill you can acquire in today’s digital era.  To establish keyboard mastery, it’s important to equip yourself with the right tools for...

Two Birds, One Stone! Combining Keyboarding and Coding Practice With so much emphasis being placed on computer science and STEM courses in schools, it makes sense that today’s students will...

  Common Words for Keyboarding Practice While there are over 600,000 words in the English language, less than 20 different words make up 25 percent of the words we read,...

The KeyMaster Keyboarding Team has compiled three Thanksgiving typing activities for your keyboarding classrooms.  Each activity should take one class period or less.  You could choose to spread these activities...

Seeking Funding for Classroom Purchases Too often teachers get excited when they learn about a new teaching tool but hesitate to ask for funding because they know that school budgets...

Purpose:  This is a great activity to use with older students who have learned all of the keys on the keyboard.  It will help students reinforce touch typing skills, practice...

As keyboarding teachers, we all know the benefits of touch typing and want to pass on these benefits to our young learners.  An individual who is a master at touch...

Designed for Elementary aged learners, ABCya.com has some great typing games and activities for early learners just getting to know the keyboard.  These activities were created by teachers to supplement...

Purpose:  To help students compose original documents that require critical thinking skills and reinforce touch type practice and proper keyboarding technique. Procedure:  Assign one of the following topics or allow...

Keyboarding Skills are Valued in the Workplace The ability to touch type with speed and accuracy is a critical skill in today's computer-based society.  As the US Department of Labor...

  PURPOSE:  Students will test their key-by-touch mastery by gradually eliminating keys on the keyboard that they have learned.  Students will identify specific keys that need review. PROCEDURE:  Assign a...

Objective:  To provide students with a break from the monotony of keyboarding textbook drills. Procedure:  Sometimes it can be monotonous for students to continually key in assignments from word processing...

  Sometimes a fun, quick activity can help shake-up and add energy to the keyboarding classroom.  These are just a few ideas you might want to try.   Practice Technique Have...

PURPOSE:  Test student’s knowledge of the alpha and numeric key placement and identify keys that need additional review. PROCEDURE:  As a class, ask all students to press the “Lights” key...

Have you ever wondered how it all began in the world of keyboarding?  Check out this short video about the history of QWERTY keyboards. This link takes you directly to the YouTube...

Purpose:  Practice touch typing with newly learned keys by typing as many word combinations as you can from the letters provided. Procedure:  Choose a variety of letters that your class...

We know there are too many keyboarding games and resources out there, and many of them aren’t worth your time.  So we’ve handpicked "Five Fast and Furious” racing games that...

Keyboard Cleaning Tips While cleaning is the removal of visible foreign matter from a surface, disinfecting is the actual killing of the bacteria and viruses on a surface. It is...

  We know there are too many keyboarding games and resources out there, and many of them aren’t worth your time.  So we’ve picked “Four Team Favorites” for building speed...

...one thing has stayed the same: Keyboarding is a critical skill that no one should go without. More than valuable. Critical!