AWESOME KEYBOARDING RESOURCES

In an effort to support test-taking readiness we would like to provide a few free tutorials, assessments, and fun practice sessions. Mastering keyboarding skills is increasingly vital for today’s tech savvy learners.

The following sites feature keyboarding tests and lessons.

Typing.com is very easy to use and allows access to an unlimited number of students, classes, and teachers. Improve typing skills and prepare your students for standardized testing, including Common Core with a fun and comprehensive curriculum.

WWW.TYPING.COM

This site offers a variety of keyboarding opportunities. It features free typing lessons, free typing games, and free typing tests.

FREETYPINGGAME.NET

Key Hero is a great place for students to improve their typing skills. The activity keeps track of all performances (WPM and accuracy) and helps students to understand what type of mistake they make.

WWW.KEYHERO.COM

Typeracer allows students to enter a typing race, get matched up with online opponents, practice and improve typing skills on their own. They can also race their friends or invite people to a private race.

TYPERACER

Dance Mat Typing is a great game from BBC and teaches students the moves that they need. There are four levels of play, each divided into three stages. At the end of each level students can test their typing speed and get a fun reward.

DANCE MAT TYPING GAME

Suitable for younger children, Keyboard Climber is a fun typing game in which kids help the little monkey get to the top of the tree fast by typing the letters that appear on the screen. Any wrong letter will result in the little monkey falling down to the bottom.

Keyboard Climber Game

Also suitable for young children, this game provides several exercises designed to improve kids touch-typing skills. These exercises start with using a few keys and gradually increases the level of difficulty till the learner reaches the total keyboard mastery. This game teaches learners to use the correct fingers for the different keys and improves their finger movements over the keyboard.

KEYBOARD GAME

3-D KEYBOARD GAME

Abcya.com offers many fun introductory keyboarding activities for young learners.

Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard. Children are encouraged to use their index or pointer fingers to match letters on the screen to their keyboards.

KEYBOARDING ZOO

Abcya.com offers many fun introductory keyboarding activities for young learners.

Keyboard Invasion is an educational game for kids to practice keyboarding. The object of the typing game is to stop the aliens before they reach Earth! Correctly enter the letters, numbers and punctuation marks to eliminate the aliens before they touch the bottom of the screen. If an alien is able to touch the bottom of the screen the game is over. Watch out for the special alien on round three of all levels! Keyboard Invasion is highly customizable - players can select from several different levels to focus on certain keys.

ABCYA's KEYBOARD INVASION