Keyboarding Practice
General Information for Parents:
Practicing Keyboarding at Home
 UltraKey
Lesson Practice Sheets 
These practice sheets directly align with the lessons and quizzes the students
are doing at school.
The first link opens as a web page; the Word document will allow you to print
the practice sheet. If you do not have MS Word, you
can download a free Word Viewer here.
This free download will let you view, print and copy Word documents, even if you
don't have Word installed.
Lesson 1 Lesson 1 as Word Document
Lesson 2 Lesson 2 as Word
Document (all capitals) Lesson 2 as Word Document (lowercase
& capitals)
Lesson 3 Lesson 3 as Word Document
Lesson 4 Lesson 4 as Word Document
Lesson 5 Lesson 5 as Word Document
Lesson 6 Lesson 6 as Word Document
Lesson 7 Lesson 7 as Word Document
Lesson 8 Lesson 8 as Word Document
Lesson 9 Lesson 9 as Word Document
Keyboard
Jigsaw Puzzles
12
Piece Color Coded Keyboard Puzzle 12 piece color coded puzzle.exe
Choose Open to play. Right click on the puzzle piece to rotate
it. Left click and drag to move the puzzle piece.
44
Piece Color Coded Keyboard Puzzle (very challenging) 44 piece color coded puzzle.exe
Choose Open to play. Right click on the puzzle piece to rotate
it. Left click and drag to move the puzzle piece.
Other
Keyboarding Sites of Interest
**
= best for beginning students
Keyboarding
Tips for Students http://www.bytesoflearning.com/UltraKey/HTTKB/Tips.htm
Keyboarding
Software Reviews http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/typing/
Any keyboarding program will help your child as long as they use it regularly.
Choose anything that motivates your child. Frequent short practice
sessions are better than infrequent long sessions. Stress fluency and
keyboarding with good posture and without looking at the keys. Speed will come
after fluency and familiarity, after repeated practice.
**Learn
the Keys http://www.abcya.com/keyboard.htm
Your job is to put a keyboard back together. You can click and drag letters to
their correct places. Only the letters in the right spots will stay! Choose the
keyboard design you like below and click on it to begin.
Online
Free Touch Typing http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/index.html
Sense-lang.org, a free internet program for learning and practicing
touch-typing. Builds slowly, two keys at a time. Also includes numeric keypad practice
and two games and a timed test to use when user has learned all of the finger
positions.
**Dance
Mat Typing http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
Dance Mat Typing is an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11
years. Each of the 4 levels are divided into 3 stages. The games use the Flash
plug-in - if your computer doesn't have Flash, you can find information on how
to download it below, or you can play the alternative interactive versions
available at each stage. Worksheets are available for each stage that can be
printed out and used offline with a typewriter or computer. Flash
Info
Peter's
Online Typing Course
http://www.typing-lessons.org/
A set of free online typing lessons and typing exercises
beginning with the home keys.
PowerTyping
http://www.powertyping.com/
Online
lessons to learn the keys and games for building speed. Will give you scores for
words-per-minute and errors-per-minute.
Keyboarding Practice http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cjh/appliedtech/Business/Keyboarding/Index.html
Practice drills online or print out and practice in your word processor.
**Practice
your keyboarding online at Nimble
Fingers http://www.nimblefingers.com/index.html
Features of this website include:
 | FREE online
typing tutorials to learn the basic keystrokes. http://www.nimblefingers.com/index_1.html
The online tutorials will give you error counts and words-per-minute
scores. |
| Then use Flash Cards to build typing speed
and accuracy. |
| Exercises for your finger and limbs for
healthy typing. |
| Or have fun exploring this huge web site
with interesting challenges and lots of typing tips and tricks. |
| FREE web
downloads permit customizing the program to meet your keyboarding
needs. This unique
typing program features the “Little Professor” as your private
instructor. He introduces the keys one at a time, analyzes errors,
offers suggestions, and may even send you back to the classroom. The
program contains interesting keyboard and numeric pad exercises, timed
writings and flash cards to develop your typing ability. |
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Touch Typing http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/
Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing. Practice online
or download the program to do offline.
Site description: For the most part, practicing will be with words having a
meaning. But at first, to get used to touch-typing, we will practice the lessons
with random text (up to Lesson 7). Use the lessons only for the beginning to
gradually get used to touch-typing. Please understand that the real practice is
with meaningful words and that you don't learn a lot from practicing random
text.
To practice real words, copy a text from anywhere (sites, word processor, etc.)
and paste your text inside the text box by clicking the right mouse button and
selecting "paste".
**Games
to Build Speed that are Modifiable
The
Frogs are off Their Diet http://www.freetypinggame.net/play3.asp
Type
the words before the frogs eat the letters. Bonus points for bugs. Choose a
difficulty level (speed) and choose the letters to practice.
Save
the Sailboat Race http://www.freetypinggame.net/play1.asp
Falling
letters are ruining the sailboat race. Type the words or groups of letters
before they run into the boats. Choose a difficulty level (speed) and choose the letters
to practice.
Outerspace
Fleet Commander http://www.freetypinggame.net/play2.asp
Outerspace
letter aliens are stopping your ships from flying through the galaxy. Type the
words or group of letters before they run into your ships. Words with
multipliers earn more points. Choose a difficulty level (speed) and the letter
combinations to type.
Advanced
Speed
Builders - You must know all the correct finger positions to play the
following games.
Typer
Shark -http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=typershark
This
program will not teach you the keys, it will just let you practice your
keyboarding to build speed. You must already know all of the finger positions. Zap
sharks and piranha as you dive for sunken treasure! Improve your typing speed while
having fun!
There
are 3 options. A free online version, a downloadable trial version or the full
game which must be purchased but then can be played without being online.
Cup
Stacking Game Typing Game
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/cup_stacking.htm
Helps
build speed. You must know all the keys. Type the black letters shown on the
stacking cups.
Krazy
Keys http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/krazy_keyz.htm
Type
the alphabet (in ABC order) in the fastest time possible. Ask a parent if you
may submit your name (first name only or nickname) and score to see if you make
it to the Hall of Fame.
The
Typing of the Ghosts http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/ghost_typing.htm
The
ghosts are coming! Type quickly to destroy them! Use both hands and all ten
fingers
to practice your speed typing as your type words to destroy the ghosts in this
Halloween typing game. You must know all of the keys.
Type Type Revolution http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/type_type_revolution.htm
Practice speed with this game. You must know all the letters. Type the
letters as they pass through the bar. Pick your song, adjust your difficulty
level.
Bubbles Typing Game http://www.typingmaster.com/individuals/bubbles.asp
Push your typing skills to their limits by playing this popular online typing
game that works in any Java(TM) 1.1 compatible web browser. Your target is to
burst the rising bubbles by pressing the character shown in them. The more
bubbles you burst, the better score your score. Practice letters or numbers or
both. Option to practice the number keypad.
Foggies Typing Game http://www.powertyping.com/fog/foggies.html
Pick a song and speed level. Type words as they appear. You must know all the
keys.
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