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 fit all standard / deep-key PC keyboards and ApplePro keyboards

iSKIN Covers fit most shallow, standard / laptop-style keyboards including i-Book, AlphaSmart, QuickPad, and most portable keyboards

AppSKIN Language Covers fit most standard laptops, all Apple laptops, and flat-key / “ultra slim” stand-alone Keyboards




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 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 all K-3 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 & 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


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