Reading
Readiness (UPPER/lower case) Keyboard Covers
Give
Reading Readiness Power to Your Students
Do your
early readers tell you, "Teacher, I don't
have an 'a'
on my computer."? Do the computer
keyboard capital letters confuse your early readers
looking for lower case a,
b, d, j, i, l and other letters? Do your students
mistake the capital “I” (i) on the keyboard for a lower
case “l” (L)? Would your early readers,
special-needs and ESL students learn more quickly
with both upper and lower case letters visible
on the keyboard?
English UPPER/lower case
SpeedSkin on PC
Three imprinted Language Cover designs fit
all keyboard types:
SpeedSKIN
Covers Deep-key. Fit all stand-alone, standard PC, ApplePro, and iMac keyboards
iSKIN Covers Shallow / vertical. Key sides are vertical or perpendicular for laptops, Apple MacBook laptops, and portable keyboards. If key sides are slanted, see AppSKIN below.
AppSKIN
Covers Shallow / slanted. Key sides are slanted or sloped for laptops, Apple MacBookPro laptops, "ultra slim" stand-alone keyboards, and AlphaSmarts. If key sides are vertical, see iSKIN above.
Problems
to be solved:
-
Fourteen letters in the English language differ
between the upper and lower case.
- Only upper case letters are imprinted on
computer keyboards.
- Reading mastery is delayed when early readers
become confused as they look for lower case
letters on an all-CAPS keyboard.
- Reading software prompts often require lower
case letter responses causing confusion and
frustration for early readers when looking
for lower case letters on the all-CAPS keyboard.
- Students must ask teachers or aides for
help—a frustration and distraction for students and
teachers.
- Students must wait for help from busy teachers
which delays reading mastery.
SpeedSkin’s
Solution: A reading Readiness Keyboard
Cover with UPPER/lower case letters
Reading
Readiness covers with English upper/lower
case
letters imprinted on each key top provide immediate
and constant correlation of these letters
for
all early and struggling readers (aA,
bB, dD, fF, gG, hH, iI, lL, etc.)
Features
and Benefits of Reading Readiness Covers:
-
Accelerate upper and lower case letter recognition
for preK-2 early readers.
- Students can refer to the keyboard cover
for letter recognition/identification without asking
their teacher. This independence empowers
a student while using reading software
or composing during non-reading instruction.
- Upper and lower case letter mastery occurs
while viewing letter pairs imprinted on the cover
key tops.
- The cover can remain on the keyboard during
non-reading instruction time to continue the
alphabet mastery process.
- Aids special-needs students in upper/lower
case letter recognition.
- Accelerates ESL students’ alphabet
mastery.
- Aids teaching English to foreign students
in the U.S.
- Aids teaching English to students in foreign
countries.
Excellent Durability
SpeedSkin covers have been laboratory
tested and certified to over 1
million impacts with no discernible wear
to the cover or imprinted letters.
Please
review this entire Reading Readiness page for
detailed
features and benefits of SpeedSkin’s Reading
Readiness covers. See SpeedSkin Keyboarding
Covers for further product features.
Keyboarding
Desk Reference Cards in the Classroom:
Placed
on a student’s desk these cards accomplish
reading and keyboarding goals:
Reading:
Early readers, special needs students, and ESL
students can see the relationship between upper
and lower-case letters in the computer keyboard
configuration.
Keyboarding:
PreK-2 students have a visual daily reference
to the computer keyboard making it a familiar
tool.
These
goals are accomplished because:
-
Upper/lower case letter combinations are shown
on each
computer key
- Number/letter/character keyboard placement
is visual on
the card
- Provides pre-keyboarding awareness of the
keyboard letter
layout–an advantage when keyboarding instruction commences.
- Classroom teachers can instruct keyboarding
finger placement
right on this card
With
a Keyboarding Desk Reference Card on the student
desk, the computer keyboard becomes a familiar
tool.
Keyboarding Desk Reference
Card
Shipping and Handling Charges (S&H) ● $5.40for 1 to 5 keyboard covers only ● $7.25 for 6 to 14 keyboard covers only ● $8.25 for 15 to 24 keyboard covers only ● $9.25 for 25 to 40 keyboard covers only.
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