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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
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
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
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
Two Birds, One Stone!
With so much emphasis being placed on computer science and STEM courses in schools, it makes sense that today’s students w...
Frequently Used Word Lists
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, and there ar...
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
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
Purpose: To help students compose original documents that require critical thinking skills and reinforce touch type practice and proper keyboardi...
Blackout
PURPOSE: Students will test their key-by-touch mastery by gradually eliminating keys on the keyboard that they have learned. Students will ident...
Song Lyrics
Objective: To provide students with a break from the monotony of keyboarding textbook drills.
Procedure: Sometimes it can be monotonous for s...
Fun, Quick Keyboarding Activities
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....
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