This is a keyboarding resource. There are lessons, games, and timed typing tests included in this resource. The lessons and games increase in difficuly, so students can move onto the next test or lesson as they learn more keys in the classroom. The timed typing tests give word per minute and errors. I use the typing tests primarily, as it's a good way to gauge progress. Students can log their words per minute and errors each time they perform the timed typing tests, so they can observe their progress. Options for timings for timed tests  up are 1-5 minutes.

Knowing finger types each key on a keyboard is important knowledge to know when learning how to type. This is a blank keyboard fingering chart that can be used in a variety of ways to help students review and assess their knowledge of which fingers type each key.

Knowing where the keys are located on a keyboard is important knowledge to know when learning how to type. This is a blank keyboard that can be used in a variety of ways to help students review and assess their knowledge of where the keys are located on a keyboard.

I have students type an assessment that is located on the following site: http://www.freetypinggame.net/free-typing-test.asp

The assessment should read #26 Classic Tales - (1 Minute Timed Typing Test) I allow 1 to 2 errors to occur. I do encourage the students to use their backspace button to fix their errors. If you have less than 2 errors they may record the higher number of the two numbers. Keyboard must be covered by using one of the following items: cardboard box, rubber skin, painted/blank keyboard, black corrugated cardboard, or a pillow case.

The students simply fill out their progress on the chart and can simply add on to their column once their speeds increase throughout the school year.

Instead of using a students name you could simply post their student number.

This is a differentiated grading scale that could be used to grade keyboarding timed tests. It allows students to be graded based on where they currently are with their skills. It also promotes students to have a growth mindset and they get rewarded with "leveling up" as they get better at typing.

This is a supplementary game that is great for reinforcing which fingers correctly type each letter key.

This is a sequence of supplementary keyboarding lessons based on using just a single hand. Often times when you teach keyboarding a student will come to class one day with a splint on their fingers, wrist brace, or arm cast, etc. This lesson sequence is for those students . These are workouts that involve just keys from a single hand. The student can still practice typing, the correct way, using their hand that isn't injured.

***These are not lessons to teach a person how to type the entire keyboard with a single hand. For instance if someone only has one hand and needed to type all the keys with one hand. This resource is intended for short-term use to fill in when a student in your class all of a sudden has a brace, splint, or cast on a hand and you want to have them keep practicing the correct way. Now they can at least practice one of their hands the correct way.

The following assessments and rubrics are valuable to assess knowledge in an introductory Microsoft Office course (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access).

Created by Laura Schoenike, Menomonee Falls High School

TypingClub School Edition is the most popular keyboarding software used in schools around the country.  There is both a free edition with limitation or a Pro Edition for a small yearly fee.