This course is designed to teach keyboarding correctly to young children at the time when computers are first introduced to them, through sixth grade. The content is phonetic by grade and reading level to facilitate learning reading along with learning keyboarding. All elementary students will benefit from taking this course whether learned at school or at home. The beginning pages of the textbook explain the course fully and give suggested goals by grade level. This course is self-paced and can be individualized: by grade level, by reading level, to beginning typists, to experienced typists, to slow learners, to fast learners. Course competencies, which can be individualized, are given in Section One in the textbook. It is recommended that teachers or parents read Section One before teaching keyboarding.

Keyboarding for Kids is a course developed by a veteran typing/keyboarding teacher that is concerned about teaching correct techniques to children. Poor keyboarding techniques are very hard to overcome when they have been practiced for years (looking at keys, hunting and pecking, screen watching, wrong fingering, etc.). This is why children should be taught keyboarding correctly when they are first using computers. Keyboarding for Kids is textbook based—all exercises are from the textbook. Nothing is taught from the screen. It is very important to teach keyboarding from a textbook so students do not become screen watchers—a habit very hard to break.

This course will not only teach keyboarding effectively with correct techniques, but it will be fun and exciting to the children. Most children who have computers at home play computer and video games that require a lot of hand/eye coordination. They usually have a score to beat and a time limit. So, also, with this course. They have a goal, a score to beat (their own while they are advancing toward their goal), and a time limit (mainly 15-second timings). The excitement and fun in the timings is in reaching their goal. Children may take the timings as often as necessary to reach their goal—and then a surprise appears on the screen to congratulate them with words of praise. Your students will enjoy this course, and so will the teacher—THERE ARE NO PAPERS TO GRADE or handle. Scores that meet the accuracy standard are automatically saved to a Goal/Progress Report which can be printed periodically if desired. This course has been designed to teach keyboarding correctly to children in grades 1-6. Children thrive on attention. Their sustained interest and excitement will be maintained if their efforts are noticed by their parents or teacher. Rewards always help.