My Favorite Online and Free Beginner Typing Resources

I work with a handful of autistic children and a couple of those kiddos are learning how to type. Although those children are in middle school, they're learning to type at a very elementary level and if you think about it, that's what we all do when we're just learning a new skill!

I'd like to share a few of the websites I've found and currently enjoy using with my own students. My children who are 9 and 10 are on a more advanced level than what I'm focusing on today. The websites I'd like to share in this post are geared towards early learners, or children just being introduced to a keyboard.

You'll find your student learning finger placement with one of these resources, simple letter recognition with another, and finally with the last resource they'll be learning to type lines of text. With enough repetition they'll know just where to find each letter on their keyboard!

Learning Games for Kids
Keyboarding Skills 
On this website, I usually spend about 5-10 minutes on "Typing Course", levels 1-3 (depending on the student). This site will require you or the student hit enter after each entry, and click with a mouse. I usually have the student hit enter after his/her entry, then click the mouse for them to move things along faster.

There are also typing games on this website, so be sure to check those out too!



FunSchool
Hyper Spider Typer
The kids seem to really enjoy this game. Your student simply types the letter matching that of a marching lizard before it can get to a climbing spider. So, it's a timed game geared at increasing speed. We've only worked at the "easy" level so far. The characters have pleasing faces and the game isn't overwhelming for a beginner.

KeySeeker
KeySeeker
This is one of my favorite typing games for very basic typing practice. However... the link is not working today! Hopefully it will be back up soon. I used it with a student yesterday and it worked, so perhaps there is just a glitch today.

This game allows the student to collect bananas as they properly identify and locate letters on their keyboard. Upon correctly identifying a letter 3 times, they will collect a banana for that letter. When all 26 letters have been mastered and all bananas are collected, the game is over!

Keybr
Keybr.com
Finally, if you have a student who is ready to type lines of text, this is an excellent tool providing just that. Your student can practice typing random letters and spaces. Keybr.com keeps track of your students time and errors too.

Happy typing! I hope you'll find these online resources as beneficial as I have!

 



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