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TEACHER’S GUIDE

an introduction to basic keyboarding conceptsfor the very young child

http://www.keyboardtownpals.com/media/pdf/LittleHandsActivityPack.pdf

KEYBOARD TOWN PALS introduces “Little Hands Can Type” Software. The “Little Hands Can Type” program is an off-shoot

of the hour long keyboarding instructional video, “Learn To Type” program. The “Learn To Type” CD-ROM teaches children, ages 7 & up,

the location of the 30 letters and symbols on the Qwerty keyboard.

Teachers and parents requested KTP to develop a primer for the “Learn To Type” keyboarding instruction program so that children younger than 7 could

begin learning good habits that would last a life time. To accommodate this request, KTP designed the “Little Hands Can Type”

readiness program for five and six year olds who knew their letter configurations

and had developed a level of fine motor skills.

The “Little Hands Can Type” goal is to familiarize young children with the basic concepts on the keyboard

and understand the relationship of letters to keys and keys to fingers.

TEACHER’S GUIDE

The program begins by focusing on each finger of the hand as a separate entity.There are several fun hand activities.

oTrace the hand. oColor one finger at a time. oLearn the name of that finger .oLearn to count fingers, houses and keys sequentially.oLearn that the same little finger always presses the same key.

TEACHER’S GUIDE

The puppet’s name begins with the letter they teach.

The lettershave a permanent location on the keyboard.

The fingers move around the keyboard.

The same finger always presses the same key.

AZ

Q

AQ

Z

PUPPETS-LETTERS-FINGERS-KEYS

AZ

Q

Amy

Zebra

Q-wert

TEACHER’S GUIDE

The “Little Hands Can Type” program uses screen grabs from the hour long

“Learn To Type” video to teach basic concepts .

Children are transitioned from Keyboard Town to a keyboard;from streets and houses in the town where charming puppets live

to keys on a keyboard where letters live.

The houses in Keyboard Town are on a slant. The keys on the keyboard are on a slant. Children practice drawing straight lines and slanted lines.

Children color the streets and the houses in the town and the keys on the keyboard.

middle row row below

row above

Street below

Street above

Middle street

TEACHER’S GUIDE

“Little Hands Can Type” will prepare the five and six year old child to be successful on

“Learn To Type. “

“Learn To Type”

PC &Mac compatible

Available in Spanish and French versions.http://www.keyboardtownpals.com/media/pdf/LittleHandsActivityPack.pdf

TEACHER’S GUIDE