Typing - Keyboarding 101 Learn to Type or Improve Your Typing Skills - 1X Weekly / 4 Weeks (Age 7-12)

Learn to type the correct way!  - Help to improve your typing skills for essays, lessons, stories, assignments, coding and more. 

In this 4 lesson introduction to keyboarding class, students will be introduced to the computer keyboard to learn touch typing, which is typing without looking. Students will build the foundation of correct typing techniques by learning all the letter keys and punctuation, utilizing all ten fingers. Our goal is to introduce correct techniques and guide learners through practice sessions to build muscle memory for typing. Committing typing to muscle memory frees you from devoting mental energy to thinking about each letter as you type it. You’ll be able to focus on the content of what you’re typing rather than thinking about (or looking for) the next key to press. 

1️⃣ Laying the foundation  -  We teach you where each of your fingers go, and the best movements to take to press each key.
2️⃣ Correcting your mistakes - From the beginning, it’s important to take the time to do things right so your muscle memory is built to type with correct finger movements. We guide learners to recognize their own mistakes while typing AND why these mistakes might be occurring.
3️⃣ Strengthen your muscle memory - Each repetition slightly strengthens your brain’s memory of “the right way” to perform the task and consolidates the results into muscle memory. Each practice session reinforces and strengthens the stored muscle patterns, making it easier to recall in the future. Eventually, you won’t even have to consciously think about it; your body just knows what to do.

Our goal is for learners to get through lessons for as many of the letters of the alphabet in this beginner-level class.  All students learn at their level of comfort and pace.  Accuracy is most important for learning typing at this level.  

We use the website EduTyping.com in this class and follow their Beginner typing curriculum and practice lesson exercises.

Lesson 1️⃣ - Getting Started - Middle Row
In this lesson, students will learn about the Home Row position and typing with each finger in the middle row of the keyboard, Space Bar, and proper posture
💻   F, J, and Space Bar
💻   D and K Keys
💻   S and L Keys
💻   A and Semicolon (;) Keys

Lesson 2️⃣ - Middle / Top Row Keys
In this lesson, students will be using the finger reach method to start typing other keys outside of Home Row, in particular the top row.
💻  H and G Keys
💻  Apostrophe (') and Enter Keys	
💻   Middle Row Review
💻   U and R Keys
💻   I and E Keys
💻   O and W Keys

Lesson 3️⃣ - Top / Bottom Row Keys
In this lesson, students will learn the remainder of the top row keys and start typing bottom row keys.
💻   P and Q Keys
💻  Y and T Keys
💻  Top Row Review Words
💻  Bottom Row Keys
💻  M and V Keys
💻  Comma (,) and C Keys

Lesson 4️⃣ - Wrapping Up
In this lesson, students will finish learning finger technique for the remaining letters and complete an extended review of the letters from the previous lesson.
💻  Period (.) and X Keys	
💻  Z Key	
💻  N and B Keys	
💻  Bottom Row Review Words
💻  Review Middle, Top, and Bottom Rows	
💻  Timed Typing Assessment

Students will have a 1 to 2 minute brain break every 5 - 7 minutes, in order for the teacher to give the students reinforcement of their skills and this will allow the students time to stretch and ask questions.  The course will consist of short lectures, demonstrations, and individual work. 

Everyone learns to type at their own unique pace and speed.  Not all students will be working on the exact same lesson during class. This is a live class but it is an individual student paced.  

**WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS?:
- Students with no computer keyboard experience (or very little) who want to learn the basics
- Students with some keyboard experience who want to improve their skills and understanding
- Students who want to learn to code but lack keyboarding skills.

**REQUIRED READING, WRITING, and COMPUTER SKILLS:
- Recognize all 26 letters of the English alphabet (lowercase and uppercase)
- Understand that letters are combined to form words, and words are combined to form sentences
- Understand basic sentence structure - starts with uppercase letter, spaces between words, ends with punctuation mark
- NOTE: It is NOT necessary for learners to be able to fluently read every word or sentence shown to them in this class. They will be copying the letters and words from a set of exercises.

**TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS:
- A laptop or desktop computer is REQUIRED for typing in this class. (No tablets, please!)

**NOTE TO PARENTS:
The teacher will create an account for each student on the EduTyping website. Username and passwords for EduTyping will be sent to parents the day before class begins. Students may need assistance logging into their EduTyping account.  Instructions for setting up learner devices will be available upon enrollment.

Teacher will wait in the classroom for 10 minutes for students to arrive.

If you prefer a camp version of this class that meets 4 times in 1 week please click on the link below
Typing - Keyboarding 101 Learn to Type or Improve Your Typing Skills Summer Camp (Ages 7 - 12) 4X Week / 1 Week
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