The exciting way for kids to learn to type

Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum for Macintosh is a typing leader for kids, packed with just the right mixture of education, entertainment, and motivation so that kids can improve their typing skills quickly and see immediate results.  This software will teach your kids all keyboarding basics, proper hand positions, speed, and accuracy.  Sit back, relax, and watch your kids get to the head of the typing class with the award-winning Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum.

• Educational - Learn to type with proven step-by-step typing instruction.
• Entertaining - Castle-seeking theme and 30+ game challenges make learning to type fun.
• Motivational - Instant results and rewards motivate you to improve your typing skills.

• The Exciting Way to Learn - Kids learn to type on an exciting adventure on Typer Island.  They learn all keyboard basics following an age-appropriate Typing Plan.  Step-by-step lessons, challenges, tests, and games motivate kids to keep typing their way around the Island to reach the Castle, advance to the Lost City, and become touch-typists.
• Explore the Lands of Typer Island - Typer Island is an exciting place to learn to type.  Follow the route to the Castle, traveling in 5 unique lands.  You'll experience exciting typing challenges, learn new keys, build speed and accuracy, and play fun games.  Inside the Castle, you'll find more engaging activities and games to help you refine your keyboarding skills.
• Rewarding Castle Adventures - When kids reach the Castle, they have learned to touch-type.  More adventure in the Castle motivate kids to keep practicing and improve their typing speed, accuracy, and rhythm.  They can play new games, like Tomb Typer and Xtreme Typing and they can go to the Lost City for Treasure Quest and the ever-challenging Ziggy.

Typing Plans

• Learn in English or Spanish
• Choose from 10 Typing Plans for specific age groups

Lessons

• Structured touch-typing content
• 160 lessons
• Proven methods for skill-building
• Age-appropriate content
• Standard and split keyboard lessons
• 3D guide hands for all keyboards

Typing Challenges and Tests

• 30+ game challenges
• Advanced level challenges
• Proficiency tests and advancement level tests

Progress and Results

• Instantly tracks results
• WPM scores and accuracy percentages
• Pass tests and get rewards
• Performance assessment for key, finger, hand, and row
• Results calculated from all activities
• Full-color progress charts and graphs
• Printable results
• Certificates of Achievement

Practice Activities

• Practice how to type and ergonomics
• Practice games on Explorer Isle and in the Castle Arcade
• 40 engaging practice stories
• Children's Classics, Literature, and Fairy Tales
• Advanced skill-building lessons and challenges

Motivational Features

• Exciting castle-seeking theme
• Visit 5 unique lands on Type Island
• Capture the Castle and advance to the Lost City

Games and Entertainment

• Multi-play games let you play the way you want
• Multi-level games provide more challenges as you advance
• Includes exciting and challenging typing game Ziggy
• Features narrative typing game Treasure Quest

• Macintosh OS X 10.4 -10.6.x
• PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Core Duo Processor; 800 MHz or higher
• 480 MB MB of available hard disk space
• Video card with 32 MB of video RAM
• Speakers and Mouse
• 1024 x 768 resolution

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