A wonderful website I have stumbled across is
Typing Club. This website, also an app on our Chromebooks, allows students to improve their typing skills. Time after time I have seen students enjoy this website. The website is scaffolded in that you can only move on to the next level once you have reached a certain degree of proficiency on the current level. Students earn stars based on their performance and the number of words per minute (WPM), percentage of accuracy, and total time is calculated after each round.
Students start with single letters and eventually move into typing whole words. One of my favorite things about the app is it shows students exactly which finger they should be using to type the highlighted key.
Here are some pictures of students "playing" Typing Club on their Chromebook:
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