The starter
The five-minute typing starter.
Typing is learned little and often, not in occasional hours. This guide is the whole method: the same five minutes at the start of every lesson, the same shape every time, while you take the register.
The routine, minute by minute.
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0:00
Hands on home row
Pupils find F and J by feel and type the eight home keys. No timer, no score: the point is where the hands are, not what the screen says.
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1:00
Two new keys
The lesson introduces one pair of keys and drills them inside real words, not abstract strings.
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2:30
Mixed drill
Everything learned so far, shuffled. Mistakes repeat until they stop being mistakes.
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4:00
Timed run
Sixty seconds against the clock. The score writes itself to the class sheet as each pupil finishes.
Running it with a class.
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First lesson: put the class join code on the board. Pupils join once and your register builds itself.
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Every lesson after: pupils sign in and pick up where they left off. Nothing to hand out, nothing to explain twice.
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Watch the room, not the screen. The class sheet fills in as pupils finish, so the walking you do is teaching, not data collection.
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At five minutes, stop. The routine only works if it stays a starter: pupils settle faster when they know it ends on time.
The routine, for the wall.
A one-page card of the four stages with a space for your class join code. Print it, stick it by the board, and the starter runs itself even with a cover teacher in the room.