Elle
HOME KEY (L)
Elle on the L Key
Next along the right hand is Elle, a gentle key-friend on the L key. Elle is home for your right ring finger — the finger next to your smallest.
Like all her friends, Elle keeps a home: your right ring finger rests on L, and always comes back home to L.
Can you find Elle? Put your right ring finger on the L key, beside Kit on K. Almost every finger is home now!
Say it with Elle: “Right ring finger, calm and well — L is home for gentle Elle.”
Jay, Kit, and Elle on the right; Ash, Sem, Dee, Fen on the left. Your fingers are nearly all resting at home. One more friend to go!
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 “Right ring finger, calm and well — L …” and stop. Let them finish it.
Now wait. Count slowly to five in your head. Their answer is worth the quiet.
Circles together: 0
The QwertyPals ensemble
Elle 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.
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Ash
lives on the A key — the left pinky's home
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Sem
lives on the S key — the left ring finger
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Dee
lives on the D key — the left middle finger
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Fen
lives on the F key — the left pointer (one of the two bumps)
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Jay
lives on the J key — the right pointer (the other bump)
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Kit
lives on the K key — the right middle finger
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Semi
lives on the ; key — the right pinky's home