To help students become proficient at their typing skills, we have begun to incorporate weekly typing time in our schedules. The students absolutely love working on the typing lessons and seeing their progress on the typing tests. They are slowly, but surely getting more an more comfortable remembering to use that home row!
Students create a color coded keyboard to help them visualize which letters their home row fingers move to when typing to build efficiency when typing their writer's workshop papers, as well as on their extended responses on my quizzes.