Learn to type on a fun-filled adventure!

For 20 years, Typing Instructor has helped individuals improve their typing skills. Now, Typing Instructor for Kids 2 delivers the same proven typing methods for children in an entertaining and educational environment. Toby and Lafitte help parents entertain, motivate, and educate their young typists and quickly turn them into touch-typists.

Acquire Essential Typing Skills Early
Helping your children learn to type correctly early in life is essential; once bad habits set in, they are more difficult to change later. With a foundation of essential typing skills, younger students will complete homework more quickly and accurately, and they'll possess the basic Internet skills they need to excel.

Lessons, Challenges & Results
Proven educational and instructional techniques are incorporated into Typer Island's lessons and tests. WPM (Words Per Minute) and accuracy scores are reported after each typing activity and results are saved for up to five typists. 

Typer Island Adventure is an exciting place to learn to type! Your kids will be motivated to improve their typing skills as they travel through five unique lands leading up to the Castle. In each land, they'll experience new and exciting typing challenges, learn new keys, and build speed and accuracy.

New Features:

Skill Settings Offer a Personalized Experience
Kids of varying skill levels should never have to start at the same place or progress at the same speed. Typing Instructor for Kids now offers varying, skill-level settings which allow young students to advance at different paces.

Seven New Friends Help You Achieve Your Typing Goals
Toby and Lafitte, the invaluable guides on Typer Island, are friendlier than ever! Plus, kids interact with Jack O'Hare, Simon de Vorak, and other new characters through each land.

Exciting New Characters
Seven exciting new characters include Jack, Simon, Lucy, Billy and Max that will help you through each section.

Educational Features:

Educational

• Step-by-Step Typing Instruction
• Hundreds of Lessons and Tests
• Proven Typing Instruction Methods
• Measure Progress and Save Results
• Visual Guides to Finger/Key Placement

Motivating

• Improve your Typing Skills and See your Progress
• Earn Treasures and Points
• Practice Typing Kid's Stories in the Story Lagoon
• Get to the Castle and Become the Ruler
• Enjoy the Benefits of Typer Island and the Castle

Entertaining

• Typer Island is a Fun Place to Learn
• Toby and Lafitte Guide you Through Each Stage
• The Castle Offers Additional Exciting Adventures
• Eleven Action-Packed Games

Includes:

Lessons

• Structured Touch-Typing Content
• Proven Methods for Skill-Building
• Unique Drills & Interactive Exercises
• Age-Appropriate Content
• Graphic Guide Hands
• Standard & Split Keyboards
• Multi-Skill Levels

Challenges

• 30+ Challenges
• Comprehensive Evaluation
• Timed Challenges
• Advanced Level Exams

Saved Results

• Instant Feedback
• WPM scores and Accuracy Percentages
• Results Calculated from All Activities
• Results Tracked for five Typists
• Performance Assessment for Key, Finger, Hand, and Row
• Full-Color Progress Charts, Graphs, and Certificates of Achievement
• Printable Results

Practice Material

• 40 Engaging Practice Stories
• Children’s Classics, Literature, Nursery Rhymes, and Fairy Tales
• Advanced Skill-Building Lessons and Challenges
• Dynamic Variety

Games

• 11 Action-Packed Games
• Child-friendly with Age Appropriate Content
• Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels
• Games for 10-Key Play Included
• Izzy’s Oasis Improves Finger-to-Key Placement
• Diamond Glider Improves Typing Rhythm
• Typer Shark Abyss Offers a Multi-Level Typing Environment

Prestigous Awards & Reviews:

Newsweek Magazine Top 50 CD-ROMs
     
SIIA Codie Aware Finalist
Best Education Technology Solution for Home/Consumer

Children's Software Revue All Star Software Award

Bessie Awards - Best Educational Software

Computer Times Editor's Choice Software

System Requirements

• Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista
• Pentium class PC or higher
• 580 MB Hard Disk Space Available
• 2X CD-ROM Drive
• 800 x 600, 16-Bit Color Display
• Sound Card
• Speakers or Headphones
• Mouse
• DirectX8 - for typing games