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10 Free Online Typing Practice Activities for Students

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In this post I put together a list of online typing practice activities for students. Learning keyboarding skills is vital for today’s learners and tomorrow’s earners. These free typing games are a great way to build typing skills. Keyboarding games teach important skills through a variety of online typing lessons and typing games.

Z-Type is a simple and fun typing game. The game has an easy level and a difficult level. The game is played the same way on both levels. To play Z-Type all that you have to do is go to the website and type the words that are falling from the top of the screen. When you have correctly typed a word a laser shoots it. The object is to shoot the words before they reach the bottom of the screen.

If you want students to take a break from the games, have them use Typing Speed Monitor for Google Chrome. Typing Speed Monitor is a Google Chrome extension that will track how fast you type and what keys you use most frequently. If you do a lot of writing online, Typing Speed Monitor is one way to get accurate feedback on your typing proficiency in real-world settings. The latest version of Typing Speed Monitor allows you to opt out of having it track your typing on domains you specify. For example, if you don’t want it to track how fast you type on Facebook, you can exclude that domain.

Typing Adventure is a nice little game that young students can use to practice their typing skills. To play the game students just have to visit the game site, read the directions, and press start. The game scenario presented to students is a character leaping from stepping stone to stepping stone. To move along the path students have to type the letters of the stones they want to jump to. Students earn points based on speed and accuracy.

Good Typing is a free online typing skill development program. Good Typing provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help students learn to use their entire keyboards correctly. Unlike some free online typing programs, Good Typing offers support twenty different keyboard styles including US style, Japanese style, and several European languages.

Dance Mat Typing is a nice little resource from the BBC. Young students (four to eight years old) can receive clear, informative typing instruction through Dance Mat Typing. There are four levels for students to work through. Within each level there are multiple lessons and practice activities. The very first lesson that students receive is placement of their hands on the keyboard. Each lesson and practice activity offers instant feedback in visual and audio form.

Word Games offers a large collection of online word games and typing games. The word games range from simple word searches and crosswords to games that require players to complete sentences and phrases. The typing games are a mix of simple sentence typing for speed and games that require accuracy to «defend» a character or move a character through a scene. Some of the games featured on Word Games can be either downloaded to your computer, see Typing Defense, others can be embedded into your blog or website.




Typing Web is an online typing tutorial that provides instant feedback after every free typing lesson. Typing Web offers beginner through advanced typing lessons for free. You can register to track your progress or you can use Typing Web without registering.

Listen and Write is a great way for students to improve their typing skills and hear about the news. Listen and Write plays short audio clips of news stories and users type what they hear. The audio clips are relatively short, come in a few different levels, and registered users can track their progress.

Power Typing hosts a small collection of five typing games that students can use to develop their typing skills. Power Typing also offers typing lessons for Qwerty and Dvorak keyboards. The two games that I found easiest to access are Alphabetic Rain and See Don’t.

Typing Club is a popular website offering free online touch typing lessons for students of all ages. Whether you use the Typing Club website or the free Chrome Web App the lessons work the same way. Typing Club provides 100 free activities that begin with the basics and progress in difficulty until you can touch type on your entire keyboard including the use of lesser-used keys like «<» and «{.» As you type during each lesson you are given instant real-time feedback about your accuracy and speed. Unlike other typing lessons that make you wait until an activity is completed to determine your accuracy or speed, Typing Club recalculates that information with each keystroke.




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WRITEREADER, herramienta de creación de historias basadas en imágenes para estudiantes de primaria.

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WriteReader es una herramienta web y de iPad para la creación de libros para estudiantes de escuela primaria. Permite a los estudiantes desarrollar sus habilidades de lectura escribiendo sus propias historias digitales. Tiene una versión gratuita y una versión de pago. Los maestros comienzan a usar WriteReader creando una cuenta, iniciando sesión e ingresando la información del estudiante para crear una clase en línea. Se les da un código de clase que luego distribuyen a los estudiantes para que inicien sesión.

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Después de iniciar sesión, los estudiantes crean libros tomando una foto para la portada de su libro, junto con el título y el nombre. Luego insertan fotos y escriben descripciones en las siguientes páginas para crear una historia. Si el texto escrito es incorrecto, los maestros pueden escribir la oración correcta debajo del texto del alumno. Luego, los estudiantes corrigen la oración y pueden agregar marcos de texto y bocadillos a sus imágenes y grabar la historia con la voz. Una vez que han completado su historia, los estudiantes comparten sus libros en la biblioteca en línea de la clase para verlos.

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Las características incluidas en WriteReader hacen que la escritura sea divertida para los niños, que es exactamente lo que anima a los niños a escribir. WriteReader une la escritura y la lectura, permitiendo que los niños escriban textos originales, lean la escritura de los demás y relean su propia escritura. El teclado también es personalizable, lo que permite que los niños vean las letras en mayúsculas o minúsculas y escuchen el audio de los nombres de las letras o los sonidos de las letras mientras escriben. En general, esta es una gran herramienta para hacer que la lectura y la escritura sean accesibles, empoderadoras y divertidas.

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