ELEMENTARY KEYBOARDING GUIDE & PRINTABLE KEYBOARD: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemkey/index.html http://www.teachnet.com/graphics/powertools/neattools/keyboard.pdf http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemkey/images/pg25.gif Recommendations, competencies, activities, and more are compiled in this keyboarding guide for elementary school classes. Use the 2nd URL above for a printable keyboard. The 3rd URL above offers a fingering chart which your students can color and keep on their desks.

FIFTH GRADE KEYBOARDING CURRICULUM: http://co.leesummit.k12.mo.us/it_web/5keyboarding/5th_grade_keyboarding_curriculum.htm Find some review practice to start with, then try keyboarding baseball, graphs, speed warm-ups, business letter practices, story starters, and more with these lesson plans and handouts for students on keyboarding.

FINGERING GUIDE: http://library.thinkquest.org/18709/data/keys.html?tqskip1=1 Print out this guide as a reference chart in your computer lab for keyboarding skills. Keys are color coded, with a reference to left and right fingers and the corresponding colors for each letter.

GET TO KNOW YOUR KEYBOARD: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1656.html Once you have introduced your primary students to the keyboard and you have run through a few keyboarding exercises, try this game to help reinforce location of letters.

INTERACTIVE KEYBOARDING:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/  Choose between four skill levels to begin with, and use the remainder of the levels for your students to progress through as they become more competent with keyboarding tasks. Lively animals guide students through keyboard familiarity with hands-on exercises.

Keyboarding http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/isu/itech/keybo/keydx.htm#White Jeffco Public Schools--Colorado

KEYBOARDING K-6: http://facstaff.uww.edu/rogersh/Issues/Articles/EKActivities.pdf http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemkey/suggested.html This site provides a wealth of activities and suggestions for helping elementary students to correctly master keyboarding skills. Several printable keyboard chart templates are available as well.

KEYBOARDING ACTIVITIES: http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/etc/cathy/keyboard.htm http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemkey/suggested.html http://facstaff.uww.edu/rogersh/Issues/Articles/EKActivities.pdf http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/activities.htm http://www.thecoo.edu/~apeter/technology.htm#keybd Numerous lesson plans and exercises, as well as posture guidelines, paper keyboards, and fingering charts are all available here.

KEYBOARDING CLUES: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1656.html In this whole class game, students must not have any visual access to keyboards or keyboard charts. Instead, they will use clues and memory prompts to locate the correct location of keyboard components.

KEYBOARDING PRACTICE: http://teachingtreasures.com.au/k-3only/alphabet.htm Students practice keyboarding skills by locating the alphabet letters and plugging them correctly into the boxes.They submit their response to see how well they did with this online practice game.

KEYBOARDING SKILLS: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemkey/technique.html Find a checklist here for technique, as well as suggestions for keyboarding activities.

PRINTABLE PRACTICE KEYBOARDS: http://www.teachnet.com/powertools/neattools/keyboard/index.html If your students need some extra practice on their keyboarding skills, download and print out copies of this simulation keyboard and tape them to student desks, introducing games for key recognition.

TEACHING PRIMARY KEYBOARDING SKILLS: http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/files/typingskills.pdf This printable reference sheet reinforces keyboarding skills for elementary students, showing them where to rest their left hand and right hand, what the shift keys and cap locks do, and how the fingers move to other keys. Each student should have a copy to refer to when learning keyboarding skills.