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Dee

HOME KEY (D)

Dee on the D Key

Next along the Home Row is Dee, a bright key-friend on the D key. Dee is home for your left middle finger — the tallest finger on your left hand.

Dee’s job: your left middle finger rests on D, and always returns home to D after it types a letter.

Can you find Dee? Put your left middle finger on the D key, right beside Sem on S. Now three friends are lined up: A, S, D!

Say it with Dee: “Left middle finger, tall and true — Dee on D is here for you.”

Ash, Sem, and Dee — three home friends, three left-hand fingers, all resting comfy. You’re getting the hang of home!

Reading together with a grown-up? A card for the grown-up

For the grown-up: ask one question, then wait. When they answer, add one word to what they said. Tap the button when they have said something — that is one turn each, a circle. Nothing is recorded or kept.

Let them finish it

Say “Left middle finger, tall and true — Dee on …” and stop. Let them finish it.

Then say the whole line together: “Left middle finger, tall and true — Dee on D is here for you.”.

Now wait. Count slowly to five in your head. Their answer is worth the quiet.

Circles together: 0

The QwertyPals ensemble

Dee is one of the friends in QwertyPals. Each friend shows you one idea by how they act; meet them all and you have the whole subject.