Typing Instructor For Kids - Version II [OLD VERSION]

by Individual Software, Inc.

Product Features

• Proven typing instruction methods; measure progress and save results
• Typing tutorial for kids in an entertaining and educational environment
• Step-by-step typing instruction; 100s of lessons and tests
• Visual guides to finger/key placement; 11 action-packed games
• Varying, skill-level settings allow young students to advance at different paces

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000DT9356
• Item model number: EDM-TK2
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,866 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #45 in Software > Education & Reference > Typing

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

For 20 years, Typing Instructor has helped individuals improve their typing skills. Now, Typing Instructor for Kids delivers the same proven typing methods for children in an entertaining and educational environment. Toby and Lafitte help parents entertain, motivate, and educate their young typists and quickly turn them into touch-typists.

Learn to Type on a Fun-Filled Adventure
Typer Island Adventure is an exciting place to learn to type! Your kids will be motivated to improve their typing skills as they travel through five unique lands leading up to the castle. In each land, they'll experience new and exciting typing challenges, learn new keys, and build speed and accuracy.

Acquire Essential Typing Skills Early
Helping your children learn to type correctly early in life is essential; once bad habits set in, they are more difficult to change later. With a foundation of essential typing skills, younger students will complete homework more quickly and accurately, and they'll possess the basic Internet skills they need to excel.

Lessons, Challenges, and Results
Proven educational and instructional techniques are incorporated into Typer Island's lessons and tests. WPM (Words Per Minute) and accuracy scores are reported after each typing activity and results are saved for up to five typists.

New! Skill Settings Offer a Personalized Experience
Kids of varying skill levels should never have to start at the same place or progress at the same speed. Typing Instructor for Kids now offers varying, skill-level settings that allow young students to advance at different paces.

New! Seven New Friends Help You Achieve Your Typing Goals
Toby and Lafitte, the invaluable guides on Typer Island, are friendlier than ever! Plus, kids interact with Jack O'Hare, Simon de Vorak, and other new characters through each land.

Educational

• Step-by-step typing instruction
• Hundreds of lessons and tests
• Proven typing instruction methods
• Measure progress and save results
• Visual guides to finger/key placement

Motivating

• Improve your typing skills and see your progress
• Earn treasures and points
• Practice typing kid's stories in the story lagoon
• Get to the castle and become the ruler
• Enjoy the benefits of Typer Island and the castle

Entertaining

• Typer Island is a fun place to learn
• Toby and Lafitte guide you through each stage
• The castle offers additional exciting adventures
• 11 action-packed games

Product Description

Typing Instructor For Kids PC V 2 EDM-TK2. Product may differ from image shown.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

94 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really great for young children!, August 23, 2006

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LJB (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Typing Instructor For Kids - Version II [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I bought this title because the first Typing Instructor For Kids got such good reviews. I was looking for a way to teach my 8yo son keyboarding. He has always had a terrible time with handwriting. I knew I needed really easy, slow-paced typing instruction for him, or he wouldn't get it.

Well, it's 6 months later and he can now type! We did it with nothing but this software. I made him practice about 10 min/day 5 - 7 days/week. All in all, he found it to be work to learn this new skill, but still rather enjoyable.

There are 11 games included and several of them are very good -- meaning they are really fun AND build typing skills at the same time. There is also a series of drills, lessons, and typing tests to teach the keyboard. The keyboard is introducted a few keys at a time, and then you repeat the related drills, lessons, tests, and games until those keys are learned fairly well. I had to require my son to keep repeating each section of the keyboard until he could do it at 15 wpm before letting him go to the next section. This is what the software recommends, but I had to learn it the hard way. At first, I let my son go ahead too fast and he ended up getting overwhelmed. I ended up having to put a sticker chart on the wall and offering him prizes for getting to 15 wpm on each section.

I would recommend this software for children from 6 to about 11. The cartoon characters are very juvenile and would probably offend a child any older than that. However, for any adolescent or adult able to ignore the juvenile cartoons, this would be an excellent way to learn to type too. I found that my typing skills improved just by occasionally using this software.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars typing instructor for kids 2, May 11, 2007

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L. DeGraw "home school mom" (Flat Rock, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Typing Instructor For Kids - Version II [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

It is targeted for ages 7 and up; however, my 4 1/2 year old is not about to be left out of the fun so we let her try it. She typed at 3 words per minute on her first try. We've had this computer CD for 4 days and my 8 year old is typing at 10 words per minute. Even mom and dad are using it. Dad has always done hunt and peck so he's learning the keys and I'm using it to increase my speed.

It has lessons that won't allow you to move on until you reach 15 wpm and 90% accuracy but you can bypass the wpm. I don't recommend it because it will slow down your future progress. It can be hard for a child to type the same section over and over until he reaches 15 wpm, but it is well worth the effort. We found a way to reward our son for just sitting down to practice even if he doesn't advance to the next level.

There are 11 games, 40 stories, 30 challenges, saved results, etc, etc. The program story revolves around the typist being on an island, moving from one land to another, until he finally gets to the castle where he becomes the ruler and can defend it and play new games.

I've never come across such a thorough program. The program has won 7 awards. Included in every lesson are hands superimposed over a keyboard so the typist knows where the keys are without looking down. You can look up test results to see which hand or finger needs more practice.

This is a fun program!

40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for kids and even adults can use this, September 24, 2006

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M. M. Konakanchi "Murali" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Typing Instructor For Kids - Version II [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I got this software from Office max. which is on sale for $8 on last week.

My 6 year old kid, start learning typing and he keep saying he want to type all the time.

Pros:

Settings are awesome.

You can choose two types of keyboards

You can choose your words per min speed and many other aspects

You can choose 4 different musics or do not have any.

You can choose the difficulty levels.

Games and encouraging things for kids.

Cons:

Still needs to find one.

How does it matter about cartoon chars speaking to you,

Adult can also learn from this CD, just by skipping cartoon talk.