Typing/keyboarding skills

There are a number of  free online resources to help develop student keyboarding skills.

However there are also many opportunities to embed typing practice in authentic learning activities in the classroom.  

The following document maps keyboarding skill opportunities against the K-6 Australian curriculum.

Copy of KEYBOARDING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CURRICULUM

A very useful  comparison of some typing tools below from this blogpost by Kathleen Morris which also includes great strategies for teaching typing.

Typinggames.zone - learn to type through playing games

Dancemat typing - levelled games to introduce you to typing

Keyhero is a typing test where you can paste in text to create a personalised typing test.