Typing Course

An in-depth course that teaches students the typing skills needed to learn proper keyboarding technique.

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  • Course Summary
  • Course Outline
  • Standard Alignment

The typing platform was created with new-to-keyboarding students in mind. This course supports students in improving their typing skills with the support of each lesson, assessment, and paragraph practice opportunity. As they enhance their keyboarding skills, they will grow to be faster, more accurate, and more productive typers that experience less fatigue in their keyboarding experiences.

Typing Course

  • T.1 Introduction

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to why proper keyboarding is important and what the home row is. They complete their introduction with a typing pre-assessment for data tracking throughout the course.

    Topics covered:

    Introduction

    Home Row

    Pre-Assessment

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  • T.2 Home Row

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to the home row typing keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    f j

    Space Bar

    d k

    f j d k

    Target: f j d k

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  • T.3 Top Row

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to the top row typing keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    r u

    e i

    r u e i

    Target: r u e i

    w o

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  • T.4 Home and Top Row Practice

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students practice the home and top row keys with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    Home and Top Row Practice

    Target: Home Row + Top Row

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  • T.5 Bottom Row

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to the bottom row typing keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    v b

    n m

    c ,

    v b n m c ,

    Target: v b n m c ,

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  • T.6 Launch Into Typing

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students put their home, top, and bottom row keyboarding skills to the test with these basic practice sentence activities.

    Topics covered:

    Basic Practice

    Enter/Return

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  • T.7 Home Row Using Shift

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to the home row typing keys while using the shift key and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    F J

    D K

    F J D K

    Target: F J D K

    S L

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  • T.8 Top Row Using Shift

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to the top row typing keys while using the shift key and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    T Y

    G H T Y

    Target: G H T Y

    R U

    E I

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  • T.9 Bottom Row Using Shift

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to the bottom row typing keys while using the shift key and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    V M

    C ?

    V M C ?

    Target: V M C ?

    Z N

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  • T.10 Word Watchers

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students practice typing the 300 most common words in the English language in these word watcher lessons.

    Topics covered:

    Common Words

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  • T.11 Common Patterns

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students build keyboarding muscle memory by practicing these commonly typed word patterns.

    Topics covered:

    -the

    -ing

    -tion

    -est

    AND

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  • T.12 Punctuation

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students review and learn how to correctly type the most common punctuation used when typing.

    Topics covered:

    . , Review

    ? Review

    Exclamation mark (!)

    Exclamation mark (!) and question mark (?)

    Target: . , ? !

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  • T.13 Numbers

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to the number keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    4 and 7

    5 and 6

    3 and 8

    2 and 9

    1 and 0

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  • T.14 Sentence Stars

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students use all of the keyboarding skills they have learned thus far to complete these sentence activities.

    Topics covered:

    Sentence Practice

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  • T.15 Symbols

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students are introduced to more symbol keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.

    Topics covered:

    Target: - _ + =

    Target: $ & % ^

    Target: " ' [ ]

    Target: @ ~ < >

    Post-Assessment

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  • T.16 Prepare for Take Off

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.17 Blast Off

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.18 Exceeding Trajectory

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.19 Out of this World

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.20 Comet Commander

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.21 Meteor Master

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.22 Asteroid Ace

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.23 Light-Speed Legend

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.24 Galactic Giant

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.25 Supernova

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.

    Topics covered:

    Paragraph Practice Prompts

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  • T.26 Programming Syntax

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students extend their keyboarding practice with these programming syntax introductory lessons.

    Topics covered:

    Tags

    Tags with < > /

    AND

    Tags with - and =

    : and " "

    Standard alignment:

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  • T.27 HTML Coding

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students use their keyboarding skills to learn basic HTML programming in these activities.

    Topics covered:

    HTML tags

    Heading

    Text Color

    Font

    Structure

    Standard alignment:

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  • T.28 JavaScript Coding

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students use their keyboarding skills to learn basic JavaScript programming in these activities.

    Topics covered:

    Variable

    String Value

    Integer Value

    Boolean Value

    Console log

    Standard alignment:

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  • T.29 Python Coding

    Learning Outcomes:

    Students use their keyboarding skills to learn basic Python programming in these activities.

    Topics covered:

    Print

    Variables

    Input/Output

    Comments

    String Value

    Standard alignment:

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Download the 2022 Skill Struck Standards Alignment + Correlation Guide to view a general list of our standard alignments, or find your state's specific alignment below:

General Standard Alignment

2022 Skill Struck Standards Alignment + Correlation Guide

Alabama

Alabama Course of Study Digital Literacy and CS Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Arizona

Arizona Computer Science Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Arkansas

Arkansas Computer Science and Computing Standards Middle School Introduction to Coding Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Arkansas Computer Science and Computing Standards High School Programming + Skill Struck Alignment

California

California K-12 CS Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Florida

Florida Introduction to Computer Science 1 + Skill Struck Alignment

Florida Introduction to Computer Science 2 + Skill Struck Alignment

Georgia

Georgia Standards of Excellence for K-8 Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignment

Idaho

Idaho Content Standards Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignment

Illinois

Illinois Computer Science Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Indiana

Indiana K-12 Computer Science Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Iowa

Iowa Computer Science Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Kansas

Kansas CS Standards  P-12 + Skill Struck Alignment.

Kentucky

Kentucky Academic Standards for Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignment

Maryland

Maryland K-12 CS Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Michigan

Michigan K-12 Standards Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignment

Mississippi

Mississippi College and Career Readiness standards for Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignment

Missouri

Missouri K-12 Computer Science Performance Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Nebraska

Nebraska K-12 Technology Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Nevada

Nevada Computer Science Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Nevada Academic Content Standards for Integrated Technology + Skill Struck Alignment

Nevada Academic Content Standards for CS + Skill Struck Alignment

New Jersey

New Jersey Computer Science and Design Thinking Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

New York

New York Computer Science and Digital Fluency Learning Standards K-12 + Skill Struck Alignment

North Carolina

North Carolina K-12 CS Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Ohio

Ohio's Learning Standards Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignment

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignment

Rhode Island

Rhode Island's K-12 CS Education Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

South Carolina

South Carolina Computer Science and Digital Literacy Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

South Carolina's Computer Science Standards for High School + Skill Struck Alignment

Tennessee

Tennessee K-12 Computer Science State Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Texas

TEKs Technology Applications K-8 Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

TEKs Skills for CTE + Skill Struck Alignment

Utah

Utah 6-12 CS Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Utah K-5 CS Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Virginia

Virginia K-12 CS Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Washington

Washington K-12 CS State Learning Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Standards for Computer Science + Skill Struck Alignement

Wyoming

Wyoming Computer Science Content Standards + Skill Struck Alignment

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