The Kindergarten and 1st Grade Curriculum

Typing.com has two curricula built for children who are not yet reading: Kindergarten and 1st Grade. This article says what is in them, what a lesson looks like, whether students see ads, and how to put a class on one.

Kindergarten and 1st Grade are two of the fourteen cards under Core Curriculum on the Curriculum page. The Kindergarten card describes it as learning one key at a time with guided, read-aloud lessons, and the 1st Grade card as building foundational keyboarding skills with guided practice.

Kindergarten - Legacy and 1st Grade - Legacy are different curricula, listed separately under Other Curriculums and built from the older grade-band units. What Is The Legacy Curriculum? covers those.

The Kindergarten rail holds Getting Started and Top and Bottom Rows under Learn to Type; Cross Curricular 1 and Cross Curricular 2 under Applied Typing; Patterns, Technology Foundations and Digital Citizenship under Beyond Typing; and Custom Lessons. 1st Grade is the same, with a third Learn to Type unit, Numbers and Beyond.

The Learn to Type units are free. Every other unit on the rail requires PLUS and carries a gold crown to say so. That comes to 14 free lessons at Kindergarten and 23 at 1st Grade, alongside Custom Lessons and the six tests on the Typing Tests tab, three under Timed Tests and three under Page Tests.

Getting Started begins before the keyboard, with Using a Mouse or Trackpad, Parts of a Computer and Meet the Keyboard, then teaches the home row a finger pair at a time through Pointer Fingers: F and J, Middle Fingers: D and K, Ring Fingers: S and L, and And the Rest: A, G, and H. Top and Bottom Rows works through the remaining letters the same way, and 1st Grade's Numbers and Beyond adds the number row, the space bar, the period, erasing letters and the enter key, then a first set of words.

Patterns, subtexted Computational Thinking in the rail, is six click-and-drag lessons in two sections, Exploring Patterns and Discovering Sequences. Cross Curricular 1, Cross Curricular 2, Technology Foundations and Digital Citizenship are the units the older curricula carry, sized for this age: 15, 9, 16 and 22 lessons at Kindergarten, and 14, 11, 16 and 22 at 1st Grade.

These lessons are built for a child who cannot yet read. A lesson opens on a short animated film, with a pause control and a Skip Video button, and the lesson bar carries a Read Aloud control alongside Sounds and Redo.

Students working in the Kindergarten or 1st Grade curriculum see no ads, in lessons or in games. This holds whether or not the account holds PLUS. Typing.com marks both as pre-reader curricula, and it is the curriculum that switches the advertising off, not the license.

A class is put on one of these from the Curriculum list on the Details tab of Class Settings, where Kindergarten and 1st Grade are two of the nineteen options. How Can I Change My Class Curriculum has the steps.

Typing.com sets these two out lesson by lesson, unit by unit, on the Kindergarten curriculum page and the 1st Grade curriculum page. In the Teacher Portal, Curriculum in the left-hand menu opens the same lessons for the curriculum a class is on.