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Typing · Ages 7+ · Set A
Meet the keyboard
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Remember: The letters sit in three rows: top, home and bottom. Letter keys make letters, and job keys do jobs.

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The keyboard in the atticTobi found a flat board covered in little buttons in Nana Bea's attic. "That is a keyboard," said Nana Bea. "Each button is called a key." Waffle the dog leapt onto it, and strange marks popped up all over the screen. Tobi wanted to type Nana a note, but the letters seemed to be everywhere. So Nana Bea drew a map. The letter keys sat in three rows: the top row, the home row and the bottom row. Some keys were bigger than the rest. "Big keys have big jobs," said Nana Bea.
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What is each button on a keyboard called?
a dota keya tile
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One press of a key makes one mark on the screen.
TrueFalse

The map of the keys

Letter keys make a letter. Job keys do a job.

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The letter keys sit in rows.
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Join each row to its letters.
  1. 1top row
  2. 2home row
  3. 3bottom row
  • Aa, s, d, f, g, h, j, k, l
  • Bbegins q, w, e, r, t, y
  • Cz, x, c, v, b, n, m
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The blue keys are one row of letters. Which row is it?
the home rowthe top rowthe bottom row
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The top row begins q, w, e, r, , y. Write the letter on the blank key.
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Circle every key that does a job and makes no letter by itself.
the m keyenterbackspacethe t keyshift
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Join each big key to what it does.
  1. 1backspace
  2. 2shift
  3. 3space bar
  • Amakes the next letter big
  • Brubs out the last mark
  • Cthe long key at the bottom
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Backspace is a letter key.
TrueFalse
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Hold shift, and the next letter comes out .
smallbiglong
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Tobi says shift is the key that rubs out the last mark. Which key really does that job?
shiftthe space barbackspace

Copy and write

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Copy it. home row
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With a grown-up, find one big key on a real keyboard. Write its name.
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