🔣 Symbol Station

Lesson 45: The @, # and $ Keys

What this lesson teaches

@ is Shift plus 2, # is Shift plus 3 and $ is Shift plus 4. Hold Shift with your right pinky.

Each run has 3 parts: a warm-up drill, real words and full sentences. You will type things like: $5 $10 $25 #1 #team #art

Pass with 90% accuracy to unlock Lesson 46: The %, & and * Keys. Earn more stars by keeping accuracy high and building speed.

Tips for grown-ups

Remind your child to keep fingers on the home row between keys.
Accuracy first. Speed comes with repetition.
Replaying a lesson for 3 stars is great practice.
Track progress in the Parent Dashboard.

About the Symbol Station unit

Colons, hyphens, parentheses and the @ sign show up in school work, email addresses and math. Each lesson here teaches two or three symbols with the finger and Shift key to use, then puts them into real examples.

Sentences in this lesson

The book costs $8.
We are #1!
Send the story to class@school.org.
I saved $25 for a new bike.
Press the # key on the phone.
Tickets are $3 for kids.
Use #science for your project.
The lemonade stand made $14.

Words in the warm-up: $5, $10, $25, #1, #team, #art, class@school, @home.