Building Accuracy And Speed; Accuracy - Alphasmart NEO2 SmartApplet User Manual

B u i l d i n g A c c u r a c y a n d S p e e d
You can't skip
forward or backward
during a lesson. You
must perform the activities as
they are presented. However,
you can stop a lesson by
pressing esc.

Accuracy

When you choose Use accuracy and speed builders in a lesson,
KeyWords helps train you to press keys correctly, which improves your
accuracy and helps you build up speed. For each lesson, there are six practice
passages in the accuracy and speed builders. The following example shows
the practice passages for the ASKL keys. (On the NEO, you would typically
only see three of these passages listed at one time.)
Select a passage:
- ALL ASK
- AS ALL ASK
- A LASS ASKS
- AS A LASS ASKS
- ASKS A LASS
- ALAS ALL ASK
To choose the passage you want to work on, move the cursor next to it and
press enter.
During the accuracy portion of this activity, KeyWords will ask you to type
each of the words and then give you the words in different sequences. The
accuracy builder helps you practice your newly learned keystrokes with whole
words and phrases. It emphasizes precision, not momentum. KeyWords
presents passages of small words or letter patters to type.
Type carefully:
tree frog free frog
tree fr_
When you complete all the lines in the passage, KeyWords displays the
number of errors you made. Errors are the number of words you typed
incorrectly; even if you make more than one mistake typing a word, it counts
as only one error. Typing extra spaces between words also counts as one
error.
K W
E Y O R D S

Building Accuracy and Speed

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