  Typing Instructor for Kids
Typing Instructor for Kids - PC Software
Learn to touch type on a fun-filled adventure!
For 20 years, Typing Instructor has helped individuals improve their typing
skills. Now, Typing Instructor for Kids delivers the same proven typing methods
for children, in an entertaining and educational environment. Toby and Lafitte
help parents entertain, motivate, and educate their young typers and quickly
turn them into touch-typists.
Typer Island is an exciting place to learn to type! You’ll be motivated to
improve your typing skills as you travel through five unique lands leading up to
the Castle. In each land, you’ll experience new and exciting typing
challenges, learn new keys, and build speed and accuracy. To become ruler
of Typer Island you must earn access to the Castle. Inside the Castle you’ll
discover new challenges and practice material to help refine your typing skills.
Best of all, as Ruler, you can roam anywhere on the Island and visit your
favorite typing games and activities.
Toby and Lafitte are your invaluable guides on Typer Island.
These new friends teach you everything you need to know about touch-typing and
give you helpful advice to conquer each land, improve your skills, and capture
the Castle. Proven educational and instructional techniques are
incorporated into Typer Island’s lessons and tests. WPM (Words Per
Minute) and accuracy scores are reported after each typing activity and results
are saved for up to ten typists.
The adventure continues once you rule Typer Island. You must fend off dangers
that seek to overthrow your kingdom. Only with proven typing skills can you
defeat these obstacles, keep your throne, and continue your reign!
Includes
Lessons
- Structured Touch-Typing Content
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Proven Methods for Skill-Building
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Unique Drills & Interactive Exercises
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Age-Appropriate Content
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Graphic Guide Hands
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Standard & Split Keyboards
Tests
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30+ Tests
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Comprehensive Evaluation
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Timed Tests
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Advanced Level Exams
Saved Results
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Instant Feedback
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WPM scores and Accuracy Percentages
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Results Calculated from All Activities
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Results Tracked for 10 Typists
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Performance Assessment for Key, Finger, Hand, and Row
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Full-Color Progress Charts, Graphs,
and Certificates of Achievement
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Printable Results
Practice Material
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40 Engaging Practice Stories
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Children’s Classics, Literature,
Nursery Rhymes, and Fairy Tales
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Advanced Skill-Building Lessons and
Tests
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Dynamic Variety
Games
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11 Action-Packed Games
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Child-friendly with Age Appropriate
Content
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Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
Levels
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Games for 10-Key Play Included
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Izzy’s Oasis Improves Finger-to-Key
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Placement
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Diamond Glider Improves Typing Rhythm
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Typer Shark Abyss Offers a Multi-Level
Typing Environment
Educational Feature
Educational
- Step-by-Step Typing Instruction
- Proven Typing Instruction Methods
- Hundreds of Lessons and Tests
- Measure Progress and Save Results
- Visual Guides to Finger/Key Placement
Motivating
- Get to the Castle and Become the Ruler
- Earn Treasures and Points
- Improve Your Typing Skills and See Your Progress
- Enjoy the Benefits of Typer Island and the Castle
- Defeat the Pirate, Dragon, and Magician
Entertaining
- Typer Island is a Fun Place to Learn
- Toby and Lafitte Guide Children through Each Stage
- The Castle Offers Additional Exciting Adventures
Fun Activities Include
The Old West
In the dusty Old West, you’ll learn the home row keys in a fun
environment. Izzy’s Oasis teaches the
proper finger-to-key placement and Wild Bill’s builds basic typing speed and
accuracy.
On the Water
Keep your fingers paddling, On the Water, where you’ll learn to reach for
keys beyond the home row. Gone Fishin’ and Erik the Viking motivate you to
expand your typing abilities.
In the Air
By the time you reach In the Air, your fingers will be flying. Diamond
Glider helps you develop a steady typing rhythm – essential for proficient
typing, and your new skills will literally blast off in Flotsam Fighter II,
where your typing will be out of this world!
Typer Island Castle
Congratulations! To reach the Castle you’ll have demonstrated your skills as a
proficient Touch Typist. Inside the Castle, you’ll discover Storyville, Tomb
Typer, the Treasure Chest, as well as additional engaging lessons and tests to
help you refine your keyboarding skills. You’ll also have earned the right to
visit anywhere you want on the Island!
Under the Sea
Take the plunge Under the Sea to finish learning the entire alphabetic keyboard!
Master the most challenging keys and escape danger
in the murky depths of Typer Shark Abyss and Sea Creatures. Look out!
Over the Edge
Back on Typer Island you’ll sharpen your skills in the rugged terrain of Over
the Edge. Play Cliffhanger and Xtreme Typing to further develop your typing
speed and dexterity.
Windows Requirements
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Windows 98, 2000, XP
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Pentium class PC or higher
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580 MB Hard Disk Space Available
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2X CD-ROM Drive
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800 x 600, 16-Bit Color Display
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Sound Card
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Speakers or Headphones
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Mouse
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DirectX8 - for typing games
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