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Below are
recommendations on how to use the variety of skillbuilding routines
available in GDP from the Skillbuilding button to help you improve speed
and accuracy. Routines are listed in alphabetical order. Lesson of first
introduction is in brown. In GDP, click the Help
icon
for more information on these drills. |
Click
here
for a demonstration of
12-Second
Speed Sprints. When you click any movie link,
a movie should begin playing immediately. Make sure your computer
speakers are on and your volume is up.
You will take a series of 3 �sprints� on 4 individual
lines of text. Your goal is to type a little faster on each successive
sprint. You must complete all 12 sprints to
mark the exercise as complete.
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Sprints build speed using, fast, repetitive
typing on short, easy sentences with no error limit.
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Goal is to
increase speed on each
repetition of the sentence.
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Sprints
are very motivational and are especially
effective to end finger-watching habits.
MAP+ may be used in several different ways and may be
accessed in different ways�MAP+ (for alphabetic diagnostics) appears in the Lesson
menu beginning with Lesson 17; MAP+ (for number diagnostics), in Lesson
19; or you may click the MAP+ button anytime
to use MAP+ as described previously.
To establish your beginning base speed, you
will take a 1-minute entry timed writing with 2 errors maximum pushing moderately for speed.
You will then take three 2-minute timed writings based on the speed you achieved in the entry
timed writing.
The Paced Practice drills alternate between goals for speed and
accuracy, and each timed writing contains the exact number of words
to be typed within 2 minutes based on either the speed goal or the
accuracy goal for that attempt. Each timed writing includes exactly enough
words so that if you finish the timed writing, you have typed 2 wpm faster
(speed attempt) or 2 wpm slower (accuracy attempt) than the last
successfully completed attempt for speed. For example:
- If your base speed is 20 wpm, your first Paced
Practice timed writing will have a speed
goal of 22 wpm�20
(for the successfully met speed goal in the entry timed writing)
+ 2, with
no error limit.
- When you reach 22 wpm for speed, the next Paced
Practice timed writing will have an
accuracy goal of 20 wpm�22
(for the last successfully met speed goal)
� 2, with a 2-error limit.
- When you reach 20 wpm for accuracy, the next
Paced Practice timed writing will have a
speed goal of 24 wpm�22
(for the last successfully met speed goal)
+ 2, with no error limit.
When GDP displays the timed writing with the goal of either
speed or accuracy, you will see a series of red triangles, which are
positioned above a given character. Each triangle signals one of eight
15-second intervals in the lines to be typed. To "pace" your typing,
slow down or speed up so that each red triangle disappears when you are
typing within 2-3 characters of the triangle. When you have completed
three 2-minute timed writings, you will be prompted to either continue
for additional practice or proceed to the next exercise.
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Drills use
a series of three 2-minute paced timed writings to increase either
speed or accuracy "just a little."
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First, GDP
will stress speed�your goal is
to speed up just a
little�the copy is 2 wpm longer than the most recently achieved
speed�with no error limit.
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Next, GDP
will stress accuracy�your goal
is to slow down just a little�the copy length is 2 wpm lower than
the most recently achieved speed goal� with
1
error-per-minute limit.
To establish your
beginning speed, you will take a 1-minute
pretest timed writing without an error limit pushing
moderately for speed. Your results will determine whether speed or
accuracy is stressed on the drills that follow. Practice drills are
unscored and reinforce a specific typing reach. The Posttest is a repeat
of the Pretest. Your goal is to improve your Pretest score when you take
the Posttest. You must complete the Pretest before you will be allowed
to attempt the associated Practices or Posttest.
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Drills use a 3-step process to
identify speed and accuracy needs: (1) 1-minute pretest, (2)
practice to
stress either accuracy or speed for a specific typing reach, and (3)
posttest to measure improvement.
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Drills provide
intensive practice that targets specific typing reaches, such as
common letter combinations, close reaches, discrimination practice, horizontal
reaches,
vertical reaches, and alternate- and one-hand words.
To establish your
beginning speed, you will take a 1-minute entry
timed writing with 3 errors maximum pushing moderately for speed.
Once the entry timed writing is scored, GDP will present a Progressive
Practice paragraph that is 2 wpm faster than your most recently achieved
goal. Your goal is to key the passage within 30 seconds with no errors.
When you have achieved that goal, GDP will promote you to the next
passage so that you can increase your speed and accuracy skills.
An
exercise is marked as complete when you have completed six Progressive
Practice passages for that lesson.
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Progressive Practice: Alphabet exercises concentrate on typing all
of the letters of the alphabet, while Progressive Practice: Numbers
focus on typing numerical expressions and words.
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Drills build speed and accuracy in short
easy steps using a series of 30" timed writings.
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Each
passage must be repeated until
it is completed and typed with zero errors.
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Each passage is long
enough to exactly reach the speed goal.
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Timed
writing speed range is 16-104 wpm.
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Individualized, self-competition
is the motivation.
Click
here
to view a movie demonstrating Sustained Practice
routines. When you click one of the previous links,
a movie should begin playing immediately. Make sure your computer
speakers are on and your volume is up.
To
establish your base speed, you will take a 1-minute
timed writing on the first
boxed paragraph only with 3 errors
maximum pushing moderately for speed. You may repeat the Base
Speed attempt on the boxed paragraph as many times as needed until that
attempt is typed with 3 errors maximum. On each of the four attempts
that follow the Base Speed attempt, you must match or exceed your base
speed and be within the 3‑error limit to proceed to the next more
difficult paragraph. At the end of the fourth attempt, if you didn�t
match or exceed your base speed, GDP will move on to the next
skillbuilding routine even though you have not typed each of the
Sustained Practice paragraphs.
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Challenges you to maintain your
initial base speed on copy of increasing difficulty.
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In the
three paragraphs that follow the boxed base paragraph, there are
more instances of the difficulty factor that is emphasized in that
particular Sustained Practice drill; examples of difficulty factors
are syllabic
intensity (longer words with more syllables), numbers or symbols and punctuation, and rough draft.
To use the Supplementary Timed Writings feature, click
the Timed Writings button, Other tab, Supplementary
Timed Writing; then click the desired Supplementary Timed Writing
and refer to the pages in the back of the textbook for copy.
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On
the MAP+ Summary screen,
Prescriptive
Drills,
you will notice a checkmark by any completed drills. In
this example, you would still need to complete
Prescriptive Drills for "F Key" and "SPACE BAR."
