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A Fun, Alternative Way To Teach Children Keyboarding |
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| Four lessons are all it takes
for early elementary school students to learn the letters on the keyboard and correct finger use |
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In this lesson, students learn the LEFT side top and bottom rows |
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| Time: 30 minutes (can be split into
two 15-minute lessons) |
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Replace the 8 white letter cards Q W E R Z X C V with their color letter cards
(leave T and B white) and keep the 9 color word keys
Quick Zoo
White (the X word is X)
Easter Chocolate
Raw Vegetables Teddy Biscuits handy |
| Seat the students in a semi-circle around
the LEFT side keyboard on the floor |
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Choose four students to be the Home key "fingers" and stand on ASDF.
Choose two more students to be the backspace key and space bar. Have the four "fingers" say aloud
their letters (ASDF) and their association words (Animals Snow Dig Food) |
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Ask the class what
Home key "finger" moves UP to Q and DOWN to Z (the Animals, Q and Z keys are red). Have the Animals finger move UP to Q, back to A,
DOWN to Z and back to A. Then, ask the class did the Animals finger move UP and DOWN in a straight line. No,
the Animals finger moved UP LEFT and DOWN RIGHT |
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Tell the class, on a real keyboard, your Home key fingers move UP and DOWN but,
for our game, our four fingers will turn around to face the key they are moving to |
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Replace the color letter keys with their word keys: Quick, Zoo,
White (the word for X is the same, X), Easter, Chocolate,
Raw and Vegetables (keep Teddy and Biscuits handy) |
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Have the Animals finger run around the classroom.
Tell the class "The Animals finger has escaped. Quick, get him/her back to the Zoo" as they shepherd the Animals
finger back to the Animals key. The more dramatic you can make Animals, Quick and Zoo sound the better |
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Have the class say aloud "Animals Quick Zoo" as the Animals finger moves UP to
Q, back to A, DOWN to Z and back to A again. Do this 10 times |
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Using a white pen or pencil, have the Snow finger draw a large X on a whiteboard (or
white paper) and ask the class why they can't see the X. Tell them it would be the same if they drew a white X in the snow |
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Have the class say aloud
"Snow White X" as the Snow finger moves UP to W, back to S, DOWN to X and back to S again. Do this 10 times |
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Ask the class if they dig in the garden for
chocolate at Easter time. Have the Dig finger dig in a flower pot for a small Easter egg |
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Have the class say aloud "Dig Easter Chocolate" as the Dig
finger moves UP to E, back to D, DOWN to C and back to D again. Do this 10 times |
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Give each student a small piece of raw carrot and ask if they like eating Food
like Raw Vegetables |
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Have the class say aloud "Food Raw Vegetables" as the Food finger moves UP to R,
DOWN to V, back to F and back to F again. Do this 10 times |
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NOW, WE START "TYPING".
The first word is "dear". D should be easy, but what finger types E
and does it move UP or DOWN? If we can't remember,
we all say aloud "Animals in the Snow Dig for Food" and, then, "Animals Quick Zoo",
"Snow White X", "Dig Easter Chocolate".
Ah ha, the Dig finger types E |
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BUT does it move UP LEFT or DOWN RIGHT? It moves UP LEFT because Easter is the first
association word and the first association word is always on the top row |
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| When you call out D, the D finger jumps and you
write D on the whiteboard. Then, call out E, A and R |
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| In turn, choose five more sets of four fingers to type
the words: ear face grass race safe |
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AT THIS POINT, you can end this lesson and, in the next lesson, refresh the above and,
then, finish the lesson below |
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BUT, wait, there are two more letters, one on the top row and one on the
bottom row and we don't have any more fingers. So, how do we type T and B? Your Food finger
again does double the work (groan) |
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| BUT, wait, your Food finger already moves UP LEFT and
DOWN RIGHT to Raw Vegetables. This time, your Food finger moves UP RIGHT to T and DOWN BIG RIGHT to B.
You move RIGHT to BOTH keys and moving DOWN BIG RIGHT to B is hard |
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| Replace T and B on the keyboard with Teddy
and Biscuit and tell the class this is the hard Food finger move, so a reward of "Teddy Biscuits" would
be nice |
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BUT, how do we remember the Food finger moves RIGHT to BOTH keys?
Easy, your Food finger is on your LEFT hand and you move in the other direction, RIGHT. OK, BUT how do we remember
the Food finger moves DOWN BIG RIGHT to B? Easy, the word BIG starts with B |
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Have the class say aloud "Food Teddy Biscuits" as the Food finger moves UP RIGHT to T,
back to F, DOWN BIG RIGHT to B and back to F again. Do this 10 times |
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NOW, WE START "TYPING".
The first word is "dab". D and A should be easy, but what finger types B?
If we can't remember, we all say aloud "Animals in the Snow Dig for Food" and, then,
"Animals Quick Zoo", "Snow White X", "Dig Easter Chocolate". No, none of these fingers
types B. So, it must be the Food finger, BUT is it the easy UP LEFT and DOWN RIGHT "Food Raw Vegetables" or the hard
"Food Teddy Biscuits" |
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| Uh oh, it's the hard
"Food Teddy Biscuits". OK, our Food finger is on our LEFT hand, so we move in the other direction, RIGHT, to T and B
and B is the DOWN BIG RIGHT because the word BIG starts with B |
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When you call out D, the D finger jumps and you write D on the whiteboard. Then, call out A and
B |
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| In turn, choose seven more sets of four fingers to type
the words: bad, bag, cab, tea, vet, wet, zebra |
| In Lessons 3 and 4, the students learn the
RIGHT side of the keyboard using quirky association words |
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