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Six Absolutely Essential Techniques

Six Absolutely Essential Techniques. 1: Sit up straight, arms and wrists straight. Back. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques. (The CD has animation/movie clips.). 2: Eyes on the book or printed page. Back. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques. (The CD has animation/movie clips.). 3:

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Six Absolutely Essential Techniques

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  1. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques 1: • Sit up straight, arms and wrists straight Back

  2. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques (The CD has animation/movie clips.) 2: • Eyes on the book or printed page. Back

  3. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques (The CD has animation/movie clips.) 3: • Correct Fingering • Keep your hands near the home row. • Keep the “J” finger lightly touching the “J” key when little finger depresses the Enter key. • Keep your eyes on the book. When you reach the end of the line, depress the Enter key. Back

  4. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques (The CD has animation/movie clips.) 4: • Try to keep a reasonable rhythm • Eliminate pauses Back

  5. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques (The CD has animation/movie clips.) 5: • Erase errors properly • (Keep your finger on the “J” key while the wrist swings up and the little finger depresses the Backspace key.) • The teacher decides whether to allow backspacing to correct errors. Back

  6. Six Absolutely Essential Techniques (The CD has animation/movie clips.) 6: • Curve Fingers and Tap Keys Quickly (pretend keys are hot) • Don’t Mash the Keys (mashing is pressing hard on the keys; usually the arms move up and down) Back

  7. Technique Review • S – Sit up right, arms and wrists straight • E – Eyes on the book • C – Correct fingering • R – Reasonable rhythm • E – Erase errors properly, or not at all • T – Tap keys, No mashing You have just been given the secret to good techniques that will help you be an excellent typist. Back

  8. Can You Pass The Nickel Test? (The CD has animation/movie clips.) • Place a nickel on each hand between your wrist and first knuckles. • Can you type and not have the nickels fall off? • If you can, you have excellent techniques!!! Newsflash: By making a small modification to this test, a teacher reported that her students amazed her by very quickly adopting good techniques and increasing their speed and accuracy significantly. She bought a bag of m&m’s and gave each student two at the beginning of class. Students put the m&m’s on their hands just like the nickel test. If the m&m’s stay put for 15 minutes, students can eat them. If they fall off, they go into the trash. It was a challenge and students loved it. Back

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