Practice At Home

Things you can do at home to support what we learn in computer specialty

Practice typing (Grade 2 and up):

Touch Typing Home Practice

Dear Parent,

Your child is learning touch typing at school. Please ask your child to practice at home 15 minutes a day for two weeks on a laptop or PC (NOT iPad). Please check for correct finger alignment, as described in the typing.com lessons (see below). Touch typing is a really useful skill.

亲爱的父母，

您的孩子正在学校学习触摸打字。 请让您的孩子每天在笔记本电脑或PC（不是iPad）上在家练习15分钟，持续两个星期。 请按照Typing.com课程中所述检查手指是否正确（请参阅下文）。 打字是一项非常有用的技能，我们将在学校进行一场有趣的打字比赛。

Dear Student,

The point of touch typing is to learn how to keep your fingers on the keyboard and “anchor” yourself to the “home row”, so you can type without having to look at the keyboard, just by feeling the keys. You can reach 100 words per minute using the touch typing technique. Without touch typing, you can only reach about 40 words per minute.

Typing.com Lessons这是练习打字的网站

• 1. Go to Clever.com (on a laptop or PC, NOT iPad)

  2. Click Log in as a student (in upper right corner dropdown menu).

  3. Search for your school. Start typing Quincy, then choose Quincy Elementary - Boston Public Schools MA

  4. This Boston Public Schools screen should appear: Click on “Log in with Google”

• 1. Put in your BPS username and password and log in (the username you use in school to log in on a chromebook when you are NOT browsing as a guest).

  2. Once you logged in to Clever, scroll down to click on Typing.com*

  3. Start on the first lesson: Click Beginner -> Start (or click Resume to continue)

*Alternative plan (in case Clever or Typing.com doesn’t work): Open a browser and go to dancemattypingguide.com Dance Mat typing. Start with Stage1 Lesson 1, or continue to whichever lesson you are on.