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Computers & Digital Literacy · Grade 2

Keyboard Accuracy and Editing

Learners practise accuracy before speed with home-row hands, type sentences with capitals (shift with the opposite hand), single spaces and end marks, and learn to edit like a writer: moving the cursor with arrow keys or a click, telling backspace from delete, and selecting a word to replace it.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 42 minutes
  • Typing and editing check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Type with home-row fingers and accuracy first: watch the screen, check each word and slow down to be correct.
  • Type sentences with capitals (holding shift with the opposite hand), one space between words and end marks.
  • Edit text by moving the cursor with arrow keys or a click, using backspace (erases left) and delete (erases right), and selecting a word to replace it.

Lessons

  1. Accuracy first 4 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  2. Capitals, spaces and end marks 4 steps3 practiceabout 14 min
  3. Edit with the cursor 5 steps3 practiceabout 15 min
  4. Typing and editing check 8 questions at the end

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