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Test Drive Keyboarding Without Tears
The sample activities below are organized by grade-level and pulled directly from our award winning 36-week keyboarding curriculum. Click on Learn More to see the specific details on how and why each activity works as well as where it lives within the lesson plan.
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It’s easy! Choose a grade that matches your students’ current grade level. Each grade-level program includes lessons that begin with foundation skills as well as the Skip Jump Into Keyboarding feature for more advanced students who are ready to progress to more challenging practice.
Jump into Keyboarding! comprises the foundation skills for each grade of the curriculum. Some or all of your students may have already mastered the foundation skills. Students in Grades 3–5 will default to skipping the first six weeks of foundation skills and begin in week 7. As the educator, you can enable or disable Skip Jump into Keyboarding at the student or class level.
In Spot Check: Paragraph, students are assessed on using both hands to type a grade-level appropriate paragraph. This Spot Check also measures student accuracy with punctuation and use of the space bar. Students speed is measured in Words Per Minute (WPM) and accuracy is measured by the percentage of correct keys hit.
How It Works
Type each paragraph as quickly and accurately as possible.
Starting online testing practice early will give teachers time to analyze students’ performance in common Math and ELA questions.
Scaffolded instruction is provided to assist students needing support to complete the question.
How It Works
Educators schedule the Assessment Accelerator so 3rd-5th grade students can practice in 3 different modules (Math, ELA and combine Math& ELA). Students receive 30 of the most common online testing questions to practice to build confidence in and familiarity with these high-stakes assessments.
Reports help teachers analyze where students need additional practice.
