Here you will find help in teaching students keyboarding basics, preparing them for formal keyboarding technique in 3rd grade and beyond. Below you will find a short presentation on how to teach keyboarding, along with resources to help students improve their keyboarding skills.
ELEMENTARY
Find curated free keyboarding games on our Best Online Keyboarding Games, where you will find games for our K-1 students that focus on letters and words and for 2nd grade and older challenge students with sentences.
SECONDARY
For older students try the free online Nitro Type program for fun practice.
During the August 2015 MDUSD Summer Learning Academy, primary grade teachers did a crowd-sourcing activity that produced a collection of collaborative documents below that have vetted keyboarding games for K-2 children you can use in your classroom.
MDUSD Teacher crowd
sourcing activity data