Dinosaur Endurance November 07, 2024Shauna Whittekiend 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 will...
Dictation Drills: Teacher-Led Typing Practice September 05, 2024Kelly Seale 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...
Logo Alphabet May 17, 2024Amy Ewell 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...
LOL to BRB: Composing in Keyboarding May 13, 2024Amy Ewell 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...
Tongue Twister Typing April 15, 2024Amy Ewell 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...
April Fools Keyboarding Fun! April 01, 2024Amy Ewell 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...
Riddle Me This! St. Patricks Day Typing Activity March 11, 2024Amy Ewell 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...
Pass Your Fortune - Typing Lesson Plan February 09, 2024Amy Ewell 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.
Jingle & Type - North Pole Job Application December 01, 2023Amy Ewell 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,...
Mystery Monster Mash-Up: Halloween Keyboarding Activity October 30, 2023Amy Ewell 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...
Trick or Treat Typing Activity October 23, 2023Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Typing Basketball--Team Competition August 30, 2023Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Valentine's Day Keyboarding Activity February 11, 2023Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Inspired Writing in the Keyboarding Classroom January 23, 2023Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Teaching Students how to Calculate WPM October 27, 2022Shauna Whittekiend1 comment 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...
Touch Typing Challenge: Thinking While Typing September 27, 2022Shauna Whittekiend 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 August 23, 2022Shauna Whittekiend1 comment 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...
5 Tools to Incorporate Coding into Keyboarding Practice March 31, 2022Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Frequently Used Word Lists February 08, 2022Shauna Whittekiend 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,...
3 Thanksgiving Typing Activities November 17, 2021Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Team Storytelling August 30, 2021Shauna Whittekiend 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...
6 Early Learner Typing Games for Elementary Students April 12, 2021Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Composing at the Keyboard March 08, 2021Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Blackout December 07, 2020Kelly Seale 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...
Song Lyrics Keyboarding Game November 09, 2020Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Fun, Quick Keyboarding Activities October 19, 2020Shauna Whittekiend 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...
Hide and Seek Typing Game October 19, 2020Kelly Seale 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...
Typing Boggle September 28, 2020Kelly Seale 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...
5 Fast and Furious Racing Games September 21, 2020Kelly Seale 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...
4 Team Activities for Keyboarding Speed & Accuracy Building September 07, 2020Shauna Whittekiend 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...