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1941

Graded Readings
in

Gregg Shorthand
By ALICE MARGARET

HUNTER

46768

THE GREGG PUBLISHING COMPANY

New York

Chicago

San Francisco

SHORTHAND PLATES WRITTEN BY

GEORGIE GREGG

.........

COP YR.IGHT 1919

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INTRODUCTION
GRADED READINGS

is a collection of graded letters and short stories and

supplement the GREGG SHORTHAND MANUAL. It is especially adapted for use in Junior high schools and with classes of younger students,
though it is believed that the book will meet the requirements of any shorthand
class, and that it will add value, interest and variety to the work.

articles designed to

Shorthand teachers have long recognized the need

for simple, interesting

well-graded reading material which could be used from the very beginning of
the svork. GRADED READINGS will meet tlu's need.

The material on the

letters are

first three lessons consists of short paragraphs.

Simple
introduced in Lesson Four, and Lessons Four and Five are a com-

bination of shorthand paragraphs and easy letters.

Ten

Six to

inclusive

is

made up wholly

The material on Lessons

of easy business letters.

In Lesson

Eleven simple literary matter is introduced, and the material from this point
on through Lesson Twenty is a combination of business, letters and literary
matter.

There are six pages of shorthand on each lesson in the MANUAL. The shorthand plates on the first five lessons are written in a large, bold style, as it is
believed that this

much more
sion.

is

much

easier for beginners to read, as the

forms stand out

and consequently make a deeper and more lasting impresSmaller notes have been used from Lesson Six on to familiarize the stuclearly

dent with the proper writing size.

The material on the first lessons

is necessarily very simple in character on

account of the limited vocabulary.
The introduction of shorthand in the
grades and in Junior high schools has created a demand for some material of

-s*
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this

kind and older students

will

readily understand the necessity

As the shorthand form in

most cases follows the longhand abbreviation, students will have no difficulty
in reading these state names and their introduction, makes it possible to assign
the letters for exercises in transcription and arrangement as soon as the students
are far enough advanced in typewriting to do the work.

KT from Lesson Seven on the names of states arc used.

.Sr

and the

advantage of simple, connected matter in the early stages of tho work.

Names and addresses are introduced in some of the letters in Lesson Four, and

iii

INTRODUCTION
The method

in

which

this

book

used must be determined by the needs oi

it will be used

is

the class and the time at the teacher's disposal. In some schools

week being devoted to it. It may

be used either for sight reading or assigned as home work for class reading and
dictation material.
The material will be found well adapted for blackboard
as supplementary reading work, one period a

dictation, either as

new

or practiced matter.

In classes where the conditions

GRADED READINGS
classes that

it is

make

possible

little

or no outside preparation,

be particularly welcomed by the teacher, as it is ia these

difficult to hold the pupils' interest and to show them that they
will

are progressing from

day

to day.

It is

always a great source of encouragement

and particularly that

and simple connected matter

to students to find that they are able to read fluently,

they are able to read and write simple

letters

long before they have completed their study of the principles.

Some teachers believe that more can be accomplished in both reading and
writing shorthand

by having students do much reading and

little

writing

Correct forms are firmly fixed through

reading. The simple characters are memorized and the rules for joining them
become familiar to the students by seeing them applied in many simple words.
practice during the

first

few weeks.

The exponents of the theory believe that when students begin to write after
a few weeks they do so readily, and that their initial writing is much better
both in style and in theory. This method of course necessitates a period of
intensive writing

drill

when

writing

is

once begun.

Sample pages of GRADED READINGS have been used in the public schools in
Columbus, Ohio, and in Oakland, California, with classes of young students
with gratifying results. They have been used with older pupils in the Bushwick and Julia Richman High Schools and in the War Emergency Courses,
New York City, and in Gregg School, Chicago. We believe that the completed
book will find a place of its own in classes in Gregg Shorthand and that its use
will mean more rapid development in both the reading and the writing ability
of

shorthand students.

The

selections on commercial products are based on "Industrial-Commercial

Geography of the United States," by L. C. Rusmisel (The A. N. Palmer Company) and the sketches of the lives of prominent Americans on material found
in "The Makers of Our History." by John T. Faris (Ginn and Company).
The fables used from Lesson Eleven on were adapted from ^Esop's
Fables. Acknowledgment is also due Mrs. J. P. Peterson, Humboldt College,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, for "A Vacation Trip," on which the geographical
,

drill in

Lesson Twenty

is

based.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
FIRST LESSON
Short Paragraphs
\u LESSON

1-G

Short Paragraphs

7-12

THIRD LESSON
Short Paragraphs

The Ball Game

FOURTH LESSON

13-16
17

Short Paragraphs

19

The Pony

21

Business Letters

23

FIFTH LESSON
Short Paragraphs

25

27

Trip
Business Letters

29

SIXTH LESSON
31-36

Business Letters

SEVENTH LESSON
37-42

Business Letters

EIGHTH

LESSCJ.V

43-48

Business Letters

NINTH LESSON
Business Letters

49-54

TENTH LESSON
Business Letters

55-60

ELEVENTH LKSSON
Business Letters

The
The
The
The

61-63

Dog and His Shadow

Crow and the Pitcher

64

Hare and the Tortoise

Lion and the Mouse

66

TWELFTH

64
65

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The Goose with

67-69
the Golden Eggs

Benjamin Franklin
Cotton

70
71

72

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THIRTEENTH LESSON
Business Letters
The Fox and the

Thomas

Crow

Jefferson

Silk

73-75
76
77
78

FOURTEENTH LESSON
Business Letters

The Old Man and His Sons

Alexander Hamilton

Wool
FIFTEENTH LESSON

79-81
82
83
84

85-87

Business Letters

The Power

of Fables

88

John Quincy Adams

Paper
SIXTEENTH LESSON

89

91-93

Business Letters

The Wind and

the

90

Sun

94

Daniel Webster

95

Iron and Steel

96

SEVENTEENTH LESSON
Business Letters

97-99

The Honest Woodmar

100

George Washington
Coal

102

101

EIGHTEENTH LESSON
Business Letters

The Monkey

as a Judge

103-105
106

Robert E. Lee

107

Gold

108

NINETEENTH LESSON
Business Letters

109

The Wolf and the Lamb

Ill

Ulysses S. Grant

112

Petroleum

114

TWENTIETH LESSON
Business Letters

115

Abraham Lincoln

116

Pottery
A Vacation Trip

119

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