Here are a wide variety of resources that teach keyboarding–from games to drills to everything in between (click here for updates to this list):
- ABCYa–Keyboard challenge—grade level
- Alphabet rain game
- Alpha Quick–how quickly can a student type the alphabet?
- Barracuda game
- Big Brown Bear
- Bubbles game
- Digipuzzles–6 keyboarding practice games for youngers
- Edutyping–fee-based
- Entertrained–read books; practice typing
- Free typing tutor
- GoodTyping.com
- KAZ–speed typing in 90 minutes
- Keyboard practice—quick start
- Keyboarding—more lessons
- NitroType
- TIPP 10
- Touch Typing Progressive Program
- Typaphone–make music while you type
- TypeDojo — word lists, 10-key, and more
- TypersGuild
- Typesy
- Typing Arena–lots of games to teach typing
- TypingBird
- Typing Mentor
- Typing Pal
- Typing Tournament
- Typing.IO–typing code for practice
Graduated programs
- All the Right Type–fee, aligned between home and school, all online
- Almena Method–online or download–promises fast results
- Edutyping
- Free Typing Games–and lessons, and tests
- Homeschool Keyboard Curriculum–includes student workbook, parent (teacher) manual, and video lessons
- K-5 Keyboarding Curriculum–includes teacher manual, student workbooks, and video lessons for students
- K-8 Keyboarding Curriculum–includes three-week immersion program (must request it, but it’s free)
- KeyBlaze
- Keyboarding Online
- Keyboarding Without Tears–K-5, full curriculum, fee
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
- Middle School Keyboarding Curriculum–includes teacher manual, student workbooks, and video lessons for students
- QwertyTown–fee-based, well done
- Type Kids–graduated program of touch typing
- Typetastic
- Typing.com
- Typing Tournament–with teacher dashboard; includes games; fee
- Typing Ace–fee-based program, online or software
- Typing Instructor–complete online program (fee)
- Typing Master
- TypingPal–fee
- TypingWeb.com—a graduated course
- Typing Club
For iPads
- Ghost Type
- Tap Fun Lite
- Tap Typing
- Typing Tournament–with teacher dashboard; includes games; fee
- Typetastic–also for computers
By row
- KidzType
- Peter’s Online Typing
- Popcorn Typer
- Power Typing (more by key than row)
For Special Needs
- One-handed typing (video)
- One-handed typing II (video)
- Typing Training–special features for special needs
Typing test
- CPS Test (Characters per second)
- Flippity–create a typing test through the add-on Flippity with whatever text you want
- Ratatype
- Top Typing Test
- Typing Test--pick a topic and test your speed
- TypingTest.com
Lesson Plans
- 4 lesson plans–bundled
- Homeschool Keyboarding Kit
- K-5 Curriculum
- K-8 Curriculum
- Keyboarding and the Scientific Method
- Middle School Curriculum
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
