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Developmentally Appropriate

The K-5 keyboarding journey starts at the Home Row and follows a developmental progression toward keyboarding competency and confidence in online testing.

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Builds Cross-Curricular Connections

Keyboarding Without Tears develops students' keyboarding accuracy while enriching their understanding of other subjects. With fun typing lessons and writing activities, students connect keyboarding to math, social studies, ELA, and science knowledge.

Meets Students Where They Are

With easy-to-teach, easy-to-learn lessons, children develop grade-appropriate technology skills. Each grade-level lesson builds foundational skills that students will use as they reach toward fluent two-handed typing.

Of course, not every student begins each grade on the same starting line. That's why each grade in Keyboarding Without Tears starts with six weeks of foundational keyboard skill-building activities before grade-level activities begin. Teachers can toggle skill-building activities off for the students who no longer need such support.

K–1 — Building Foundations

Focus on building foundational keyboarding and mouse skills through proper techniques presented in this first sequence of activities. Students practice alphabet knowledge concepts, such as vowel sounds and combinations, and activities that build toward typing full words.

Colorful puzzle pieces representing cross-curricular connections in the KWT program, illustrating how different learning areas fit together to support early childhood education.
Illustration of math sentence building blocks from the KWT program, showing how foundational math concepts are integrated into early learning through visual and hands-on strategies.

Grade 2—Develop Muscle Memory

Concentrate on typing letter combinations that build into words. Students will also begin to see grade-level appropriate math equations where they type out the problem with numbers and words instead of symbols.

Grade 3—Sharpen Accuracy and Fluency

Help students develop accurate, fluent keyboarding. They will begin honing skills, such as reading comprehension, that help them in online assessments.

Illustration of math sentence building blocks from the KWT program, showing how foundational math concepts are integrated into early learning through visual and hands-on strategies.
Child using a keyboard in the KWT program’s 'Type to See' activity, demonstrating how typing skills are integrated into early learning through interactive, cross-curricular content.

Grade 4 — Strengthen Accuracy and Speed

Build accuracy and speed as students type complete sentences featuring facts on fun, interesting subjects. As they complete typing these sentences, an image from that subject is revealed to them. 

Grade 5—Reinforce Formatting Skills

Practice using text formatting tools and typing full paragraphs line by line as students work toward fluent keyboarding and explore new cross-curricular topics that are appropriate to their grade

Student participating in the 'Write About It' activity from the KWT program, using writing prompts to build literacy and critical thinking skills through cross-curricular learning.