The 3rd grade students just finished their 2nd Words Per Minute (WPM) typing test. They did a wonderful job and are more than halfway done with all of their lessons and learning all of the keys. They have for sure mastered all of the home row keys, spacebar, return and delete keys and have mastered some reach keys and punctation keys. Students can readily practice their typing at home, at the library, at a friend's house or anywhere they can get on the Internet. Online Typing games are fun and easy to use if only for 10-15 minutes one time a week. Some practice is better than no practice at all.
While they are learning to type they are also being introduced to some skill-based learning associated with Microsoft Word.
They currently have learned how to select/highlight a word, sentence and paragraph, how to bold, italicize and underline words and how to align left, align center and align right. Practicing these at home can be a benefit as Microsoft Word on your personal computers might be a little bit different than Microsoft Word on the schools Apple Macintosh Computers.
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