What do experts say about elementary school students learning to type?
Keyboarding studies report improvement in reading comprehension, spelling and punctuation skills, and hand-eye coordination without a loss in handwriting skills. It is said that typing is less personally threatening to children than handwriting, resulting in positive attitudes toward learning to read and write. The most effective keyboarding instruction is during the upper elementary school years, ages 10-12. At this age, students can develop outstanding keyboarding skills in relatively short periods of time, and they can readily transfer their keyboarding skills to improvement of their writing or composition skills.
