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Typing Tutorials

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Activity Description

Typing Keyboarding Tutorial by Sense-Lang
Source: sense-lang Typing Website (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

This site offers free tutorials and games to learn touch typing. They also offer typing tests for practice.

Preparation

  1. Preview site and try various tools.
  2. Decide which ones will meet your student's needs. Print copies of the Example Document 1 for student use.

How-To

  1. Be aware that there is a bit of advertising on the site. Teach students how to avoid the advertising if they are not Internet savvy.
  2. Discuss importance of learning to touch type.
  3. Demonstrate the different aspects of using the site. Handout the Example Document 1 worksheet.
  4. If students do not know how to type, begin with the Keyboarding tutorials or the Animated Typing Tutorials. The Animated tutorials may take a while to load since it appears the files are large, so just be aware of that.
  5. If they know how to type already and just need to improve their speed, they might start with the typing Test. Then they might try the Games to improve their speed and accuracy.

Teacher Tips

Make a chart showing skills improvement of students showing their number of words per minute.

Program Areas

  • ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

  • Low
  • Intermediate
  • High
  • All Levels

Lesson Plan

Warm-up
Engagement

Ask students

Do you text on your phone?

Do you type on your phone?

Do you text on a computer? Can you type on a computer?

Why do you think you need to learn how to type?

Is it easy or difficult for you to type in English?

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Introduction
Engagement Enhancement

Have students watch the YouTube Video about the Homerow.

Presentation
Engagement Enhancement

Explain the goal: “Today we will learn how to type using all ten fingers.”


Show students the website https://www.sense-lang.org/typing/

Demonstrate how to:

1. Click on Typing Tutorials

2. Choose Beginner Level

3. Start with Home Row.

Objective: Demonstrate correct finger placement and explain posture.

Procedure:

  1. Show a diagram of the home row and finger colors.
  2. Use real-time demo to show correct posture, hand position, and no looking at keys.
  3. Encourage students to sit straight, feet flat, eyes on screen.
Practice
Engagement Enhancement

Students open the website and complete Lessons 1–3 under "Typing Tutorials" (Home Row).


Walk around and assist students with hand placement.


Encourage students to go slow and not look at their hands.

 

Evaluation
Enhancement

Ask students to show their progress on the screen (wpm and accuracy).


Use the Practice Log to assess which lesson they completed.


Give praise and individual tips:


“Good job using all fingers!”


“Try to keep your hands steady.”

Application
Engagement Enhancement Extension

Have students practice more lessons from the website at home and add the completed lessons to their practice log.

Documents

Subjects

  • Reasoning Through Language Arts
    • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
  • Writing
    • Basic Sentences
    • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
    • Paragraph Skills
    • Parts of Speech
    • Report Writing

Standards

  • Language
    • CCR Anchor 1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Tags

typing, typing tutor, using a keyboard, word processing, writing on computer, keyboarding, learning to type

Tools

typing

Creative Commons License

CC BY
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AI Reference

Used Chat GPT to modify this lesson plan
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