Keyboarding Games & Activities

Typing Basketball--Team Competition

Typing Basketball--Team Competition

Purpose:  This activity is intended to foster friendly competition between classmates by adapting the game of basketball to motivate students to ...

Using Keyboard Shortcuts Increases Productivity

Using Keyboard Shortcuts Increases Productivity

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

Valentine's Day Keyboarding Activity

Valentine's Day Keyboarding Activity

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 touc...

Inspired Writing in the Keyboarding Classroom

Inspired Writing in the Keyboarding Classroom

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...

Teaching Students how to Calculate WPM

Teaching Students how to Calculate WPM

It’s nice that online typing programs and typing tests used in today’s keyboarding classrooms will automatically calculate students WPM.  But, it’...

Touch Typing Challenge: Thinking While Typing

Touch Typing Challenge: Thinking While Typing

 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.

4 Quick Drills for Touch Typing Reinforcement

4 Quick Drills for Touch Typing Reinforcement

  Objective:  To improve typing speed by using quick and short bursts of finger energy. Procedure:  Print and distribute one or more of the follo...

5 Tools to Incorporate Coding into Keyboarding Practice

5 Tools to Incorporate Coding into Keyboarding Practice

Two Birds, One Stone! Combining Keyboarding and Coding Practice With so much emphasis being placed on computer science and STEM courses in schools...

Frequently Used Word Lists

Frequently Used Word Lists

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

3 Thanksgiving Typing Activities

3 Thanksgiving Typing Activities

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 out over a few days or allow your students to complete whichever activity interests them most.

Team Storytelling

Team Storytelling

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...

Composing at the Keyboard

Composing at the Keyboard

Purpose:  To help students compose original documents that require critical thinking skills and reinforce touch type practice and proper keyboardi...