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Individualized Keyboarding (Teacher)

This is the Teacher's Manual for Individualized Keyboarding. It gives many helpful ideas of how you can use the lessons provided in Individualized Keyboarding. Buy this only if you would like additional copies of this book as it is already incorporated as part of the Individualized Keyboarding Student book.

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From the "Improving Reading and Spelling Skills via Keyboarding" section of
Individualized Keyboarding

Try this little experiment, PLEASE!
Have Group 1 copy this:

tNo:e dGoo rdseae hvae bltui-ni rspnsseoe ot lpsnlgei pttnsr,ae os hyte cna syleai rdea nda pllse nn-orwsdo lki:e dptneoi,o ncradtn;kioaio nda cglgngi.i dGoo tpstsyi rai dgoo rdrseae hwo qckylui blbui pnuo ehtse bltni-iu rspnsseoe ot dvlpoee wne pttrsna.e

dGoo rdrseae Irdyaea knw"o sbcnscsll"yuoiou hte pttrsnae os htye dnto' ndee trnngaii ot tpye yb ptrts.nae

rPoo rdrseae dnto' nkwo hte ptrtnsae nda nt'do nwko hte wrdso os hyte mtsu ypte lttree-yb-lttr,ee srtkoe-yb-srtko.e

rPoo rdrseae ndee gtnrnaii ni ptrtnsae ot bcmeoe dgoo tpsyt.si

 Have Group 2 copy this:

Note: Good readers have built-in responses to spelling patterns, so they can easily read and spell non-words like: depotion, piction, incordation, and cligging. Good typists are good readers who quickly build upon these built-in responses to develop new patterns.

Good readers already "know subconsciously" the patterns so they don't need training to type by patterns.

Poor readers don't know the patterns and don't know the words so they must type letter-by-letter, stroke-by-stroke.

Poor readers need training in patterns to become good typists.
 

If Group 1 can type or copy longhand the scrambled words as fast as Group 2 can, AVKO's theories are all wet. If not, doesn't that demonstrate to you the importance of teaching patterns? Try it. Please.

There are three main differences in the AVKO home school program's  approach to keyboarding and the traditional classroom program.

1.  AVKO teaches the letters in patterns.  Traditional teaches letters in isolation.

2.  AVKO introduces the letters slowly to achieve mastery.  Traditional rushes through the keyboard with emphasis on speed.

3.  AVKO's keyboarding program has simple easy-to-read text that is uncluttered.  Traditional has lots of fancy graphics and different sizes and colors of print that clutter up the pages.