Bellringer:
1. Open your Typing file and on page 5 type lines 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Use your index fingers for the f and j exercise.
Use your middle fingers for the d and k exercise.
2. If you were late or absent yesterday, students will take a typing test at http://www.typingtest.com to get their beginning words per minute
What are we learning?
1.1 Implement proper keyboarding technique (the form and keyboarding style)
1.2 Introduce Alphabetic keys
1.3 Begin timed writings on Alphabetic keys
Guided Practice
Miss W will review:
@Touch-method of typing technique
@ Correct finger placement for the home keys
@ Proper Keyboarding Posture and Technique
@ On the bottom of the second page write:
-Eyes should look at the copy (what you are copying)
NOT the keyboard.
- When a person is keying copy the hands and arms should
remain relatively stationary. They should not move much.
Independent Exercise:
3. Students will participate in a team exercise-
Proper Typing Skit- students will act out the improper way to type
and then act out the proper way to type.
Make sure to include all of the Posture and Technique bullets and
the Work Area Arrangement bullets.
Team Roles should include:
- "Good" typist, "Bad" typist, Narrator- reads techniques
4. Students will label the different types of fingers, index (blue),
middle(red), ring(green) and pinky (yellow) and color them
so they match the QWERTY keyboard finger positions.
5. Students will evaluate themselves and another student using the
Posture and Technique Check List and will list 2 items they need to improve.
6. In teams students will answer the Posture and Technique Review questions
on the last page (page 11).
Exit Activity:Students will practice touch typing the home row keys
with a game called HomeKeys Kennys.
Remember- Do NOT look at the keys while playing.
Try your best to click on the keys from memory. http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games/homekey-kennys.html
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