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Keyboard Companion


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| The Language Arts Keyboard Companion titles contain a comprehensive set of exercises that provide keyboard practice in
the proper use of sentence structure, sentence combination, and grammar in writing. The six titles contain 300
progressively challenging activities. Each activity is comprised of five exercises that present a paragraph the student
needs to rewrite (retype) according to the instructions.
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Language Arts Keyboard Companion I
Student exercises include rewriting paragraphs to change nouns to plural nouns, change noun phrases to pronouns, and
changing the spelling of singular words. Students will also change the gender of the subject to match the gender of the
pronoun, change present tense verbs to past tense verbs, and change past perfect tense verbs to present perfect tense
verbs by adding a time referent.
Language Arts Keyboard Companion II
Student exercises include changing positive statements to negative statements, changing statements into questions by
changing the verb position, changing questions into statements by moving the auxiliary verb position, combining
sentences by adding the word “and” where necessary, combining four sentences into two sentences, and adding a compound
predicate.
Language Arts Keyboard Companion III
Student exercises include changing plural nouns to singular nouns, changing indefinite amounts to specified quantities,
changing masculine pronouns to feminine pronouns, changing pronouns to agree with the subject of a sentence, working
with verb tenses, and changing noun phrases to pronouns.
Language Arts Keyboard Companion IV
Student exercises include changing positive statements to negative statements using contractions, changing statements
to questions by moving the verb, creating sentences from word lists, combining sentences, and changing questions into
statements by moving the auxiliary verb.
Language Arts Keyboard Companion V
Student exercises include changing singular nouns to plural
nouns by changing the spelling, adding quantities to nouns,
filling in the blanks of sentences using the words “much” and “many”, changing
singular nouns to plural nouns, working with subject/verb
agreement, and changing
the tenses of verbs.
Language Arts Keyboard Companion VI
Student exercises include changing positive statements to negative statements, changing statements into questions by
changing the verb position, changing questions into statements by moving the auxiliary verb position, combining
sentences using correct punctuation, and combining three sentences into one sentence by using a compound verb.
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