Summer KEYBOARDING for Students Entering Grades 3-7
Typing skills are essential in today's technology dependent learning environment. Typing is practiced and promoted in grades K-6 at St. Louise Parish School in weekly technology classes. Students learn to type using the QWERTY keyboard and proper keyboard finger placement is emphasized. The level of speed and accuracy expected by our computer teachers increases as the children develop in age and finger dexterity.
Practicing proper keyboarding fingering over the summer will help your child continue to develop fundamental typing skills as well as preventing him or her from reverting to poor fingering habits.
Just as learning to play a sport or an instrument with correct form is vital, it’s also essential that students use the correct finger positions on the keyboard to build accurate muscle memory. While students are practicing, parents are encouraged to observe and guide their children to use the fingering shown in the diagram since “practice makes permanent".
We are requiring that every St. Louise student entering grades 3-7 put in a minimum number of minutes of keyboarding practice at least 4 days a week, using the online keyboarding programs listed below.
Goals for words per minute (WPM) are:
- By the end of 3rd grade, 15 WPM
- By the end of 4th grade, 20 WPM
- By the end of 5th grade, 25 WPM
- By the end of 6th grade, 30 WPM
- By the end of 7th grade, 35 WPM
