QWERTY for Home Schoolers: Touch Typing from Zero to Fluent
A structured, parent-friendly typing curriculum that takes kids from hunt-and-peck to confident touch typists — no classroom required, just a keyboard and 15 minutes a day.
Perfect for: Home-schooling parents teaching children aged 7–14 who have little or no formal typing instruction; also suitable for older beginners or teens who need to break hunt-and-peck habits.
Typing is a life skill. Teach it at home — the right way.
Most kids learn to type by accident: pecking with two fingers, staring at the keys, building habits that take years to break. This course gives home-schooling families a proven, step-by-step curriculum to build real touch-typing skills from the ground up — with the structure of a school program and the flexibility of learning at home.
What makes this course different?
Every lesson is designed around short, focused practice sessions (15–20 minutes) that fit naturally into a homeschool day. There's no expensive software to buy, no subscription, and no "game-ified" gimmicks that entertain without actually teaching. Instead, students work through the keyboard systematically — home row first, then top row, bottom row, numbers, and punctuation — building genuine muscle memory at every stage. Parents get clear lesson guides so they always know what to do next.
Who this is for — and what they'll walk away with
Whether your child is 7 or 14, a reluctant typist or an eager one, this course meets them where they are. By the final module, students will be typing complete sentences and short paragraphs without looking at the keys, with accuracy and growing speed. That skill pays dividends in every subject — essays, research, coding, communication — for the rest of their lives.
A curriculum you can trust
Each module includes printable practice sheets, progress trackers, and parent coaching notes so you can troubleshoot posture problems, slow fingers, or motivational slumps without guessing. This is the typing class your co-op probably doesn't offer — and your kid definitely needs.
What you'll be able to do
- Set up an ergonomic typing station at home and establish correct hand posture from day one
- Type all 26 letters using proper home-row finger assignments without looking at the keyboard
- Reach a minimum typing speed of 20 WPM with 90%+ accuracy on simple sentences
- Type numbers and common punctuation marks accurately using the correct fingers
- Use a simple self-assessment system to track speed and accuracy progress over time
- Identify and correct common bad habits (finger peeking, incorrect fingering, poor posture) independently
- Apply touch-typing skills to real writing tasks like short paragraphs and dictation exercises
- Follow a sustainable daily practice routine that fits within a homeschool schedule
Curriculum
5 modules · 15 lessons
Your teacher
Cathy Mas
Hi, I'm so glad you're here — because teaching typing at home was one of the most surprisingly rewarding things I ever added to our homeschool routine. I'm a veteran homeschooling parent and curriculum designer, and I built this course after spending years frustrated by typing programs that were either too game-y to actually teach proper technique, or too rigid to fit into our family's day. I went back to basics: how do typing teachers in the best school programs actually structure this skill? Then I rebuilt it entirely for the home environment. Every lesson in this course is something I have personally used with my own kids and refined based on real feedback from other homeschooling families. I can't wait to hear about the moment your child types their first full sentence without looking down — it's genuinely magical.
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