One of the requests from the middle school teachers is to make sure the students are keyboarding well before they start 5th grade. The 4th graders were introduced to keyboarding at the end of 3rd grade and we just started keyboarding again at the beginning of this calendar year. We practice on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The students are taking it seriously and are off to a great start! Here is a quick video that describes many of the things that are important when keyboarding: | |
If your child would like to practice at home (we would love that!) They can access their typing tutor account from home. Typing Agent is a web-based application, so you can access it from most devices.
Email me if you'd like me to email you a login card for your child. We use keyboard covers in the classroom to ensure students don't become reliant on looking down at the keys. I highly recommend it. You can purchase a Speedskin for your specific home keyboard at: https://www.venturaeducationalsystems.com/speedskin/
Typing Agent is setup for the following Grade Level Targets:
Students should get at least 2 stars on a lesson before moving to the next lesson. Here are the things they should focus on when keyboarding (in priority order):
- Typing Agent URL: https://acds.typingagent.com
- Username: <first name><last name> (all lower case, no spaces)
- Password: <students fruit password>
Email me if you'd like me to email you a login card for your child. We use keyboard covers in the classroom to ensure students don't become reliant on looking down at the keys. I highly recommend it. You can purchase a Speedskin for your specific home keyboard at: https://www.venturaeducationalsystems.com/speedskin/
Typing Agent is setup for the following Grade Level Targets:
- 15WPM
- 85% Accuracy
Students should get at least 2 stars on a lesson before moving to the next lesson. Here are the things they should focus on when keyboarding (in priority order):
- using the proper fingering
- not looking down at the keys
- accuracy
- speed (don't focus on speed as a priority, it will come with practice)