Touch Typing for 8+ year olds – October 2022
Event Location:
Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre
- Introduction to touch typing. Most participants are 10+ but suitable from 8+
- Four-day course taught in daily one-hour sessions
- All students to bring own laptops / ipads with keyboard
- Learners taught position of letters on keyboard using multi-sensory techniques
- By end of the week learners will have progressed to simple punctuation and number keys
- Short homework tasks after each session to consolidate skills
- Sessions should be backed up by regular practice at home to promote automaticity
- Upon completion of the course, learners should have gained a good basic knowledge of keyboard and have a sound foundation on which to build speed and accuracy
- Our tutor also recommends Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS)
Once you have booked, your child will be allocated a time and they will attend at the same time every day for the four days.
“I think that the course is pretty good because now I’m a lot better at typing than I first was. It is also an effective way of learning.” (A B)
