KEYBOARDING VOCABULARY

To key by touch rather than by the hunt-and-peck method

• Technique
• Work Area
• Touch-method
• Posture

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

What does WPM stand for?

• Work per mile
• Words per minute
• Weight per meter
• Words per metric

Press and hold this key to capitalize a letter or to insert a symbol

• Shift
• Caps Lock
• Enter

What is Home Row?

• The line of houses where you live.
• The middle row on the keyboard where your fingers rest.
• The group of desks you share in homeroom.
• Rowing your boat home.

Posture is...

• a squid that lives in the ocean.
• posing like a model.
• how strait your back is when you sit or stand.
• a kind of furniture.

A space bar is used to...

• take wooden crates apart.
• take people to space.
• lean on when you are walking up the stairs.
• put spaces between words and letters when typing.

The monitor is...

• the screen that shows what the computer is doing.
• a kind of lizard.
• the person who makes sure people behave in the cafeteria.
• a half man half bull.

What is the shift key?

• What you use to start your car.
• The button that allows you to type capital letters or the symbols above numbers.
• What a pirate uses to open a treasure chest.
• The lever that lets you change gears in a car.

When someone talks about your perch they are describing...

• a fish you caught.
• a bag a woman carries around.
• the way you are sitting on your chair.
• the wooden platform attached to your house that has chairs and a grill.

Words Per Minute means...

• How many words you type in one minute.
• how fast you can talk.
• all the words that mean one minute.
• all the words that describe pears that take a minute to say.