Keyboard Craze Lessons

Keyboard Craze Lessons

Each Keyboard Craze binder contains several sections of lessons: technique review, alphabet review, high frequency words, high frequency phrases, speed building, number keypad, and composition.

As an elementary teacher, you will have 20 consecutive days at the beginning of the school year for direct keyboarding instruction. You will not be able to get through all the Keyboard Craze sections in that time. Instead, you will focus on teaching:

  • the 5 Keyboard Craze Technique Review lessons,
  • the 10 Keyboard Craze Alphabet Review Lessons,
  • and the first 5 Keyboard Craze High Frequency Words Lessons.

The remaining sections of Keyboard Craze can then be used for follow-up instruction throughout the remainder of the school year.

Each Keyboard Craze lesson is designed to minimize teacher preparation. The lessons are detailed and scripted so teachers can simply read through them, gather a few materials, and teach. Teachers will want to read through the Keyboard Craze lesson the day before they teach it, but beyond that, there should not be much preparation as long as the teacher has the lesson plan with them as they teach.

Modifications may need to be made to lessons from time to time in order for teachers to accommodate for various grade levels, time constraints, or reteaching needs. It is hoped that generally the lessons will not need to be modified, but teachers should not hesitate to make each lesson "their own".

 

Keyboard IconLesson 1

Independently read through the Technique Lessons Introduction and the plan for Technique Review Lesson 1 in Keyboard Craze. Think about the grade level you will be teaching. What adaptations might you make for your particular grade within Lesson 1? Why would you make these adaptations within the lesson?

Click the following link to download a pdf copy of the Technique Lessons Introduction and Technique Review Lesson 1: