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
2
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.
3
The letter keys sit in rows.
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Join each row to its letters.
1top row
2home row
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
5
The blue keys are one row of letters. Which row is it?
the home rowthe top rowthe bottom row
6
The top row begins q, w, e, r, , y. Write the letter on the blank key.
7
Circle every key that does a job and makes no letter by itself.
the m keyenterbackspacethe t keyshift
8
Join each big key to what it does.
1backspace
2shift
3space bar
Amakes the next letter big
Brubs out the last mark
Cthe long key at the bottom
9
Backspace is a letter key.
TrueFalse
10
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
13
With a grown-up, find one big key on a real keyboard. Write its name.
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Answer key · Set A
Meet the keyboard
1a key Each button is called a key.
2True Press a key and the computer hears it: one press, one mark.
33 Count the rows of letters in the picture: top, home and bottom.
41-B, 2-A, 3-C The top row begins q w e r t y, the home row is in the middle, and the bottom row holds z x c v b n m.
5the bottom row Z, x, c, v, b, n and m are the bottom row, the last row of letters.
6t The top row reads q, w, e, r, t, y. The blank key is t.
7enter, backspace, shift Enter, backspace and shift are job keys. The m and t keys make letters.
81-B, 2-A, 3-C Backspace rubs out, shift makes the next letter big, and the space bar is the long key at the bottom.
9False Backspace is a job key: it rubs out the last mark you made.
10big Shift is a job key: hold it, and the next letter comes out big.
11backspace Backspace rubs out the last mark. Everyone slips sometimes, and backspace puts it right.
13Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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