Ultimate Guide to Keyboarding: Middle School
Description
- a comprehensive approach to teaching keyboarding–lots of detail, numerous illustrations so it’s easily understood even by teachers who don’t teach tech for a living. Rich in detail so everyone can understand it.
- supports Common Core needs in the form of yearly testing and Standards requirements for a tech-infused classroom
- detailed timeline of what to introduce when. Starts weekly and moves to monthly as teachers become more comfortable with how to integrate keyboarding into their classroom
- can be used with or without optional student workbooks and videos. All three products are fully aligned so students and teacher are at the same point any moment in time.
The book includes:
- Overview of the book, keyboarding and philosophy
- Big Idea behind the book
- Who needs this book
- How to use the book
- Equipment requirements
- Assessments
- Research
- Why Learn Keyboarding
- Common Core alignment
- Body/Hand position
- Finger exercises
- Problem solving
- Templates
- Monthly checklists to be sure students are completing what they need to know
- Yearly checklist to be sure students are ready for the next keyboarding year
Each lesson includes;
- Vocabulary
- Homework
- Materials
- Activities
- Steps
- Images (where available)
- Websites (where used)
Note to readers: If you’re looking for the Essential Guide to Keyboarding, click here.
Details on Ultimate Guide to Keyboarding: K-5
What Goes Well with the Ultimate Guide to Keyboarding:
- Ultimate Guide to Keyboarding: K-5
- K-8 Student Workbooks (including free videos and free Ultimate Guide)
- Grades 3-8 Online Keyboarding (videos to accompany student workbooks–free with workbooks)
- Keyboarding articles
- Summer Keyboarding–online immersion course
How do I pick between Essential Guide to Keyboarding (K-8) and 2-volume Ultimate Guide?
- The Ultimate Guide:
- is Common Core compliant
- includes more detail/images/how-tos on each activity than the Essential Guide.
- expanded detail makes it perfect when keyboarding is taught across grade-level classes, often by teachers without a background in teaching keyboarding
- is aligned with new K-8 Student Workbooks
- includes enriched assessments (to reflect changes since the 2012 publication date of the Essential Guide)
- includes a detailed timeline of what to introduce when, by week/month
- includes a slightly-expanded research section
- responds to reader requests since the Essential Guide’s 2012 publication (which is why it’s over three times as long!)
- can be enriched with student workbooks and videos
- can be a student-directed activity when student workbooks and videos are used
- The Essential Guide
- is more compact (less than a third of the size of the Ultimate Guide)
- covers all essential keyboarding material in one book rather than two, and as such, is more portable and affordable
- is available in print or digital (Ultimate Guide: K-5 is available in both formats, but the Middle School volume is only available in digital)
- is perfect for teachers looking for a curriculum map of activities more than how to do them
- has no associated workbooks or videos
- well suited when keyboarding is taught by one teacher
Reviews of SL Keyboarding Curricula
Thank you for all of the information you provide, I don’t think I could do my job without your books, wikis, and advice. Thank you for being an inspiration to me and others and for being willing to share your knowledge and experience with all of us [refers to the free help available to curriculum users] –long-time teacher
With online testing we have to hit the road running with keyboarding. This resource makes it easy! Thank you! –TeacherPayTeachers customer
I will be teaching keyboarding for the first time this year. Our students haven’t had an official keyboarding or technology class ever in our school. I really questioned how I was going to accomplish teaching so much information when I see the kids once a week [until I found this course]. –technology integration specialist
Finding you and all that you have to support technology and its users have been a blessing –new technology teacher
I teach computer preschool – 8th grade. Having this guide to keyboarding helped me know what to expect for each grade level. It also gives great websites to use to reinforce learning. I also have the K-8 computer curriculum textbooks and I am highly satisfied with their content. –Amazon Customer
This book provides tech teachers — both novice and those with years of experience. I especially appreciate the specific guidelines with ACTUAL resources available online with best practices and extensions for a variety of learners. I feel that this is BY FAR the most HELPFUL resource I have come across as a first year technology instructor and plan on using this daily throughout the year! BRAVO! –Amazon customer — first year teacher
I teach computer preschool – 8th grade. Having this guide to keyboarding helped me know what to expect for each grade level. It also gives great websites to use to reinforce learning. I also have the K-8 computer curriculum textbooks and I am highly satisfied with their content. –Amazon Customer
This book offers so much more than I expected. Not only does it tell how to implement keyboarding into all grade levels (kindergarten-5th) it provides several websites and cross-curricular ideas that can be utilized along with the curriculum. I would recommend this book to anyone who teaches technology to grade school students. –Amazon customer
When your child comes home and asks to to practice keyboarding you know the teacher is doing something right. Even though kids can text with two fingers our school has discovered that the kids want to learn how to keyboard. We are using the book for K-8 instruction in keyboarding to prepare the students for the 1:1 program we have in grades 8-12 –Amazon customer, parent
This curriculum goes well beyond simply which software to pick. It mixes software with games, quizzes and projects. All with the goal teaching age appropriate keyboarding. –Amazon Customer
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