Touch Typing for Kids
Fall 2010 Kids Computer Fun Touch Typing Class for kids Ages 6-12
Schedule:
Location
TBD
Cost
TBD
Registration
Remember to register early as spaces are limted. To register, please complete on-line registration form and provide best way to contact you and time if by phone. Also, please provide an e-mail that you use frequently since important information will be e-mailed out. We do not disclose your e-mail or any other information to anyone else.
Why teach children to touch type?
Teaching children touch typing skills is an essential life-long skill and is a part of a successful education. We live in an age of computers and enabling elementary school students to learn how to use a keyboard, give them a head start into becoming proficient and accurate typists.
While touch typing skills are great for every child to acquire, the skill can provide major benefits to children with learning disabilities, especially dyslexia and dyspraxia. Children with fine motor skill difficulties can learn to type efficiently and effectively. It is possible to find that once this touch typing class is completed, a child with fine motor skills difficulties will have improved his/her handwriting as well. This is because touch typing develops important neurological aspects.
Touch typing skills are also beneficial to children who have autism. Read more:
Typing for Autistic Children - Timberdoodle Co. Autism Centre
The best way for children to learn to type is for them to practice, practice, and practice in an entertaining and fun way! In our classes we use several of the most successful award-wining typing software programs for kids out there. In our classes, each student proceeds at his/her own pace.
- Our number one goal in our classes is to help our students to memorize the keyboard in order to enable fast and accurate typing skills.
- We show them which fingers to use for each key in a fun way though entertaining programs which include typing games.
- We watch them type. Give them time to get the hang of using the right fingers for each key and give them instruction as they need it.
- We read over their work and generate progress reports in week 6 and again in week 12
- We allow them time to get all the practice they need and provide them with resources they can use to practice at home.
- And we reward them by offering them the option to play games of their choice for the final 20 minutes of class
Test your typing skills, take a free lesson, & play a typing game.
