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I am a library media specialist in charge of educational software at an elementary school. I downloaded this to try at home with my four children ages 6-11. I am very disappointed. The software doesn't take students through incremental instruction except for breaking up the keys into different "lessons." The lessons are just typing drills in which you copy groups of letters on the screen. There are about 25 groups to copy at a time. The Typing Island framework is stilted and hard to navigate, especially for a young child. It would be overwhelming for a child with any kind of learning problems. My children were simply bored. Up til now we've been using Type to Learn 3, an older platform on CD-ROM. We will continue to use that. It only works on 2 letters at a time; the game format is fun; drills are arranged in small groupings of letters; and feedback is instant.