JuniorKindergarten to Year 2
My red hat
I have a red hat. I wear it in the sun.
Typing
Proper typing,one fingerat a time.
Children now write most of their schoolwork on a keyboard, and many hunt and peck with two fingers. XTutio gives them a course of 125 lessons from the home row to real speed, a junior track for Kindergarten to Year 2, and hands on screen that show which finger presses the next key. Included for every tutoring family.
Press b with your left index finger.
Passage: Platypus facts
31 wpm98%
The platypus is one of the strangest animals in the world. It has a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and it lays eggs. Did you know ...
Certificate earned
30 words a minute
125
lessons in 14 stages
17
junior lessons
210
original passages
2,300+
words in the bank
The typing screen
Eyes on the words. Fingers on home.
Children who look down at the keys never get fast. Every key on the keyboard is tinted by the finger that presses it, and the hands underneath light the one to use next, so a child learns where the keys are without looking down.
The right finger, lit
Children who cannot remember which finger to use look down and lose their place. Two hands sit under the text with the finger for the next key lit in its keyboard colour, and the same thing is said in words underneath. For a capital, the little finger on the other hand lights up for Shift.
A speed that settles first
The words-a-minute figure stays hidden for the first 3 seconds and 5 correct letters, so a child is never shown a wild number from their first two keys.
Words that stay whole
Lines break between words, never in the middle of one, and the text is large enough to read from a comfortable distance.
Built for the phone too
On a small screen the keyboard picture steps aside and the words take the room, so practice on a phone is about the words, not a squashed keyboard.
Passage: Platypus facts
31 wpm98%
The platypus is one of the strangest animals in the world. It has a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and it lays eggs. Did you know it closes its eyes when it swims underwater?
The course
From the home row to real speed.
14 stages and 125 lessons in a strict order: two new keys at a time, then the reach rows, capitals, numbers and symbols, then writing and speed.
Certificate
30 words a minute
on a timed test at 96% accuracy
Mia Tran
Stage 1 · 11 lessons
Home row
F and J - the anchors, D and K, F J D K together
Stage 2 · 10 lessons
Top row
E and I, R and U, E I R U drill
Stage 3 · 11 lessons
Bottom row
V and N, C and M, V N C M drill
Stage 4 · 9 lessons
Rolls & common pairs
th, he and the, in, er, an, re, on, at, en, nd
Stage 5 · 10 lessons
Capitals & punctuation
Capital letters, Sentence case, Names and places
Stage 6 · 9 lessons
Fluency
Common words, Common words, faster, Everyday sentences
Stage 7 · 8 lessons
Word power
Word ladder: warm up, Word ladder: build, Word ladder: push
Stage 8 · 10 lessons
Real-world writing
Greetings and sign-offs, A quick email, A formal email
Stage 9 · 9 lessons
Numbers
4 5 6 7, Inner numbers drill, 1 2 3 8 9 0
Stage 10 · 8 lessons
Symbols
Quotes and colons, Brackets and slashes, Maths symbols
Stage 11 · 8 lessons
Code
Variables, Functions, Brackets and braces
Stage 12 · 6 lessons
Australian English
our and re spellings, ise and double-l spellings, Australian places
Stage 13 · 9 lessons
Speed & accuracy
Word bursts, Faster bursts, Accuracy drill
Stage 14 · 7 lessons
Speed ladder
Rung 1: 30 wpm, Rung 2: 40 wpm, Rung 3: 50 wpm
One clear next lesson
A child who has to pick a lesson often picks the easy one. The course is a path of stages with the next lesson always one tap away, the stage a child is on open and the rest folded until they get there.
Stars for careful typing
Rushing builds bad habits that are hard to undo. Every lesson has an accuracy floor to pass and a speed target for three stars, so speed never comes before getting the keys right.
Certificates worth printing
A certificate for every stage finished, and 7 speed certificates from 10 to 70 words a minute, earned on a timed test at 95% accuracy or better.
More than the alphabet
Numbers, symbols, capitals and punctuation, real-world writing such as emails, short lines of HTML, CSS and Python, and Australian spellings and places.
🐣 Junior keysLine 2 of 3
F and J, the bumpy keys
ff jj ff jj
Feel the little bumps on F and J. Your pointer fingers live there.
Junior keys
Careful fingers first. Speed later.
Small hands and new readers need a gentler start. Kindergarten to Year 2 begin on their own track of 17 lessons: two new keys at a time, big letters, real words as soon as the letters allow, and stars that come from typing carefully. Either track can open the other.
- 1
F and J, the bumpy keys
ff jj ff jj
- 2
Reach up to E
see fee
- 3
T and O
hot dog
- 4
Words you know
dogs like to dig
- 5
My first story
I have a red hat. I wear it in the sun.
Something worth typing
210 passages, written for the age typing them.
Australian animals, places, science and history, in three bands. Here is one from each, exactly as a child sees it.
PrimaryYears 3 to 6
Platypus facts
The platypus is one of the strangest animals in the world. It has a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and it lays eggs. Did you know it closes its eyes when it swims underwater?
SecondaryYear 7 up
The Great Barrier Reef
Stretching more than 2,300 kilometres along the Queensland coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system on Earth. It is made up of almost 3,000 individual reefs and hundreds of islands. Corals are tiny animals called polyps; they build hard structures of calcium carbonate over many generations. Warmer ocean temperatures can cause "bleaching", which scientists monitor closely.
Practice that aims
The games know which keys are slow.
Children practise the keys they already know and avoid the hard ones. The app times every key, the slowest show on a key map, and the arcade leans on them, so a game of Falling words is practice where it is needed.
Passages for every age
A six-year-old should not be typing a Year 10 text. 210 original passages in three bands. Each child gets the band for their school year, and one with no year set gets the primary band, never the secondary one.
A graded word bank
More than 2,300 real words in three tiers feed the drills, the timed tests and the games, in Australian spelling.
Games that train the weak keys
3 arcade games: Falling words, Word waves and Key defender. Words holding a child's slowest keys come up three times as often.
Every text checked
Each word list, passage and lesson line is checked for suitability and Australian spelling before a child types it.
🌧️ Falling words · 1,240
betweenvalleycanyonharbourrainbow
Your trickiest keys: BYwal|
Typing: my students
Not practised this week (1)StudentBestAcc.Week
Mia TranYear 534 wpm97%4
Leo WalshYear 422 wpm95%3
Ava KhanYear 641 wpm98%0
Noah RuizYear 29 wpm93%2
Mia: speed over time
Up 20 wpm since 14 Jul
This week: 4 runs, best 34 wpm at 97% accuracy.
Parents and tutors
No more chasing practice: see who practised, and how it is going.
Speed over time
Parents rarely see whether typing practice is working. They get a chart of the best speed on each day practised, with the same figures in a table beside it, and a one-line summary of the week.
Who has practised this week
Chasing practice by message takes a tutor's evening. Tutors and parents sort their students by speed, accuracy or lessons passed, and one tap shows who has not practised this week.
Set typing for several at once
Tick the students, choose a lesson, and it lands as homework for each of them.
The right students only
A parent sees their own family, a tutor sees the students they teach, and a centre admin sees the centre. Staff can download a spreadsheet after two-step sign-in.
Typing is included in a tutoring family's plan. Nothing is sold on a child's screen.
The coaching tip after a run is built from that run's numbers only: never a name, never what was typed.
A tutor sees the typing of the students they teach, and nobody else's.
In short
Typing
XTutio's typing course runs from the home row to real speed, with a junior track for Kindergarten to Year 2 and hands on screen that show which finger presses the next key. It is included for every tutoring family. It sits beside spelling and reading and the maths drills, and parents see the progress in the parent app.
Questions centres ask
Is typing included?
Yes, for every family your centre tutors.
Can tutors and parents see progress?
Yes. Parents see their own children, and tutors see the students they teach.
