Touchtyping

They are many typing software options out there. Busy fingers has been used in our school in the past. The colourful and child friendly 2Simple 2Type has many positive reviews (if the budget is there to invest). I decided to try out a recommended program called TuxType which is free to download from the Internet - Hurray! Which means the children could even download and practise at home (which some did!). The class and I love this program - we try to have a 10 minute session every morning. I discussed hand position on the keyboard, and after a few reminders was amazed at how quickly (and keenly) the children were maintaining the correct hand position. Tuxtype is great fun, which I believe it works so well for the children. You can follow lessons or play games. The presentation of the lessons is very basic compared to other software out there, but they worked for the children. The games are great - really encouraging the chidlren with their key awareness and typing speed as they type word lists to win fish or zap comets :) Evenmore, there is the option to create your own word lists e.g. tricky words, topic related words... A couple of screenshots are below. Great fun. Big thumbs up from the children.