Grade 3

• Keyboarding practice in a structured program should begin at grade 3.
• 15 WPM at 80-100% accuracy
• Frequent practice for short periods of time over a concentrated number of weeks (i.e., 20 minutes per day, 4 days per week for 4 weeks)
• Students use proper keyboarding techniques such as correct hand and body positions and smooth and rhythmic keystroke patterns
• Students demonstrate touch keyboarding techniques for operating the alphabetic, numeric, punctuation, and symbol keys as grade-level appropriate
• Students produce documents at the keyboard, proofread, and correct errors
• Students use language skills including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, word division, and use of numbers and symbols as grade-level appropriate