Nessy Fingers
Product Description:
Nessy Fingers is a cloud-based program designed for students aged 7-12 with dyslexia that teaches touch typing while improving spelling. It can be particularly effective for students who learn differently.
Main Features:
- There are 15 games to play.
- Students win trophies and earn nuggets which they trade for rewards.
- As they learn to type, the program will help students improve their reading and spelling.
- Children with a spacial difficulty are slower at finding keys and they often find it frustrating to use typing programs because the starting level is too high for them. Nessy Fingers has a low starting level of four words per minute.
- Students with dyslexia respond better to a logical learning structure. The program introduces the keys alphabetically, which is a familiar sequence that makes more sense to a dyslexic than the random keys used in other programs.
- Progress is accessed as a class or individual report. Tables and graphs show characters per minute (CPM), words per minute (WPM) and accuracy (ACC%).
- Includes five lessons:
- Lesson 1: Home Keys (teaches the correct fingers positions to make touch typing easier and more fun).
- Lesson 2: Keys A-G.
- Lesson 3: Keys H-N.
- Lesson 4: Keys P-Z.
- Lesson 5: Punctuation.
- Students complete the Nessy time trial, which uses full sentences and punctuation to set a personal best for words per minute and accuracy that will be displayed in Mount Glory.
- Students' personal best sets the default Skill-o-meter difficulty for all other games.
Primary Specifications:
- Broadband internet connection.
- Not tablet compatible.
- Chrome or Safari browser recommended. Not compatible with Internet Explorer.
Options & Accessories:
- Available as part of the Summer Pack bundle.
- Available as part of the Home Pack bundle.
- Available as part of the Dyslexia Home Pack bundle.