Semi

HOME KEY (semicolon)

Semi on the ; Key

At the very end of the right hand lives Semi, the last key-friend, sitting on the ; (semicolon) key. Semi is home for your right pinky — the smallest finger on your right hand.

Semi’s job finishes the home row: your right pinky rests on the ; key, and always comes back home to Semi.

Can you find Semi? Put your right pinky on the ; key, beside Elle on L. Now look — ALL your fingers are home!

Say it with Semi: “Right pinky rests at the very end — Semi is your last home friend.”

Ash, Sem, Dee, Fen on the left; Jay, Kit, Elle, Semi on the right. Eight little friends, eight home keys, all eight fingers resting comfy. That’s the whole home row — your home base for typing anything!

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 pinky rests at the very end — Semi …” and stop. Let them finish it.

Then say the whole line together: “Right pinky rests at the very end — Semi is your last home friend.”.

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

Circles together: 0

The QwertyPals ensemble

Semi 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.