![]() what if your child’s teachers disagree about allowing a keyboard? (Either a laptop or a Bluetooth-enabled keyboard with a tablet.)īut. If you have a child whose handwriting means they turn in incomplete work, or it limits what they produce in school, consider typing lessons and allowing them to use a keyboard for school. This skill is essential for all learners but especially children with learning differences. We need to help kids with output - to know what to do with the input they are reading or hearing. My kids progress through the keyboard’s lines (middle, bottom, top) and the individual keys.ĭon’t let your kids advance on new keys until they’ve shown mastery of the first keys taught. This will help your kids look at the screen as they slowly learn the entire keyboard and increase in difficulty levels. So kids don’t look at their hands, cover the keyboard with the lid of a cardboard box. ![]() My children’s typing teachers told the kids to make their hands into tiger claws with “thumbs kissing.” Teach beginners the home row keys and use a keyboard that has bumps on the f and j keys OR add your own bumps with small triangle stickers. With touch typing, keyboarding becomes a fluid movement where you don’t need to look where your hands are. This makes it possible to learn typing in early elementary grades. This is also a good age because a child’s hand-eye coordination will improve quicker than at younger ages.Īnd even though their hands are small, according to my daughters’ typing teachers, we type from our shoulders, not our hands. For one, kids’ hands are big enough to reach the keys on the keyboard. I’ve learned that around 8 or 9 years old is a good age to start typing lessons.
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