Keyboarding Curriculum for K-12 Students
Provide the foundation for effective technology use for all students by teaching students to type.
Comprehensive Typings Skills
Keyboard Layout
Identify, explore, and understand the layout and configuration of common QWERTY keyboards, including common hotkeys and shortcut key combinations.
Ergonomic Strategies
Demonstrate proper touch keyboarding techniques and ergonomic strategies such as correct hand and body positions and smooth and rhythmic keystrokes.
Keyboarding Proficiency
Gain proficiency, accuracy, and speed in touch keyboarding.
Keyboard Layout
Identify, explore, and understand the layout and configuration of common QWERTY keyboards, including common hotkeys and shortcut key combinations.
Ergonomic Strategies
Demonstrate proper touch keyboarding techniques and ergonomic strategies such as correct hand and body positions and smooth and rhythmic keystrokes.
Keyboarding Proficiency
Gain proficiency, accuracy, and speed in touch keyboarding.
Curriculum Elements
Interactive Lessons
Application Exercises
Guided Practices
Personalized Instruction with Adaptive Keyboarding
Customers receive exclusive access to our state-of-the-art Adaptive Keyboarding application, which delivers personalized keyboarding instruction for students. Based on a student’s skill level, the application creates a completely personalized learning sequence that effectively hones their typing technique for improved accuracy and speed.
The application features in-depth reporting, learning challenges, games, and muscle memory training.
The Keyboarding Adventure for Grades 3-5
Students explore the keyboard and the world around them through a series of different habitats and adventures and collect badges as they progress.
Urban Keyboarding Explorers for Grades 6-8
Students find their way across the keyboard while exploring cities around the world and collecting badges, like stamps in a passport, as they complete keyboarding levels.
Archaeological Expedition for Grades 9-12
Students embark on an archaeological adventure in which they discover and collect artifacts as part of their keyboarding practice to build accuracy, technique, and speed.
Enaging Students with Keyboarding Games
As students progress through Adaptive Keyboarding, they are rewarded for practice time with gameplay in our exclusive in-app games.
Dinotyper
In the game for K-8 students, it’s prehistoric dinner time, and dinosaurs want food. Students keep their supper safe from the dinosaurs by typing letters above the dinosaurs’ heads.
Keyboard Cannons
K-8 students become the captain of a pirate vessel sailing the seven seas. The seas contain sea monsters, and students keep their ship safe by using their typing skills to fight off the monsters.
Keyboarders
Students in grades 6-12 are skiers and snowboarders invited to participate in an adrenaline-fueled downhill race. Students type passages that appear above the slopes to guide extreme racers down the snowy hills to victory
Word Defense
In this upcoming game, K-8 students become the commanding officer of a faraway space base. A rogue meteor shower has entered the atmosphere, and it’s up to students to use their keyboarding skills to protect the base from dangerous falling rocks
Enaging Students with Keyboarding Games
As students progress through Adaptive Keyboarding, they are rewarded for practice time with gameplay in our exclusive in-app games.
Dinotyper
In the game for K-8 students, it’s prehistoric dinner time, and dinosaurs want food. Students keep their supper safe from the dinosaurs by typing letters above the dinosaurs’ heads.
Keyboard Cannons
K-8 students become the captain of a pirate vessel sailing the seven seas. The seas contain sea monsters, and students keep their ship safe by using their typing skills to fight off the monsters.
Keyboarders
Students in grades 6-12 are skiers and snowboarders invited to participate in an adrenaline-fueled downhill race. Students type passages that appear above the slopes to guide extreme racers down the snowy hills to victory
Word Defense
In this upcoming game, K-8 students become the commanding officer of a faraway space base. A rogue meteor shower has entered the atmosphere, and it’s up to students to use their keyboarding skills to protect the base from dangerous falling rocks
Featured in These Learning.com Curriculum Solutions
Learning.com solutions feature scaffolded curriculum that grows student skills year over year. As a part of a comprehensive curriculum, the keyboarding content area is featured in these solutions.
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Teachers
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- Engage students with gamified lessons
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