These materials are not compatible with the previous 2009 Edition. Significant changes include a more user-friendly teacher's manual, introducing more high-frequency letters earlier, and prioritizing alphabet mastery before introducing numbers and symbols.

This typing course is designed to provide Christian schools with an alternative to selections usually found in typing courses. Lesson selections are a variety of Scripture passages, songs, poetry, articles, and upbuilding stories.

This course is designed for the ninth- or tenth-grade level. It has 60 lessons, divided into 6 units, with a test at the end of each unit. It is intended to provide two lessons per week for a one-year course, although it can be used over the course of two years with one lesson per week.

Additional practice material is provided at the end of each lesson in the first two units (one for use after Lesson 40 and one for use after Lesson 56). This extra practice makes the course more flexible to meet different needs. The extra-practice units can be used in schools that do more that two typing lessons a week, or with second-year students, or with struggling students.

This course emphasizes accuracy before speed and teaches correct posture, touch-typing, and proficiency through practice. It is designed to provide keyboard mastery, but it does not teach secretarial skills.

Although this course is planned for the use of typewriters, it can also be used with computers. Learning to type on a typewriter is encouraged because mistakes cannot easily be corrected, thus encouraging accuracy and more-accurate grading. A student who learns to type on a typewriter finds it a simple matter to shift to a computer, whereas a student who learns to type on a computer generally feels handicapped when required to use a typewriter. The teacher's manual contains notes for the teacher whose classroom is provided with computers.

The pupil's book is so designed that the student can move through the course mostly on his own, though teacher involvement is strongly encouraged. Spiral-bound with hard covers, this book stands nicely on its own.

The teacher's manual contains pointers for each lesson—objectives, teaching notes, and grading forms—as well as an outline of the course.

Table of Contents

• To the Teacher
  • Materials for This Course
  • Plan of the Course
  • Typewriters or Computers?
  • Preparing a Typewriter
  • Preparing a Computer
  • A Bookstand
  • Important Observations
  • Grading Accuracy Sections
  • Taking Timings
  • Grading Lessons With Timings
  • Second-Year Students
  • Helps for Struggling Students
• The Beginning of Touch-Typing
• The Typewriter

Unit 1: High-Frequency Letters

• 1. Home Keys
• 2. Home Row
• 3. Review
• 4. Left Second Finger
• 5. Left Index Finger
• 6. Right Second Finger
• 7. Right Index Finger
• 8. Spacing Automatically
• 9. Right Third Finger
• 10. Short Center Reaches
• 11. Review
• 12. Unit 1 Test

Unit 2: Shift and Remaining Letters

• 13. Left Shift
• 14. Right Shift
• 15. Review Shift, Shift Lock
• 16. Long Center Reaches
• 17. Right Little Finger
• 18. Left Third Finger
• 19. Left Little Finger
• 20. Review
• 21. Unit 2 Test

Unit 3: Paragraphs and Punctuation

• 22. Tying by Words
• 23. Tab and Tab Set
• 24. Difficult Words
• 25. Colon and Question Mark
• 26. Apostrophe and Quotation Marks
• 27. Testing Speed
• 28. Hyphen and Exclamation Point
• 29. Review
• 30. Unit 3 Test

Unit 4: Numbers and Bible References

• 31. Numbers 1 and 2
• 32. Numbers 3 and 4
• 33. Number 5
• 34. Numbers 7 and 8
• 35. Number 6
• 36. Numbers 9 and 10
• 37. Parentheses
• 38. Review
• 39. Review
• 40. Unit 4 Test

Extra Practice Lessons A-J

Unit 5: Formatting and Symbols

• 41. Backspace and Manual Underlining
• 42. Manual Centering
• 43. Symbols $ and ¢, Tabbed Columns
• 44. Special Features
• 45. Symbols @, #, and %
• 46. Symbols & and *
• 47. Symbols = and +
• 48. Symbols ½ and ¼
• 49. Review
• 50. Unit 5 Test

Unit 6: Speed and Accuracy Building

• 51. Speed and Accuracy Building
• 52. Speed and Accuracy Building
• 53. Correction Features
• 54. Speed and Accuracy Building
• 55. Speed and Accuracy Building
• 56. Breaking Lines at the Right Margin

Extra Practice Lessons K-T

• 57. Speed and Accuracy Building
• 58. Speed and Accuracy Building
• 59. Unit 6 Test, Part 1
• 60. Unit 6 Test, Part 2

Extra Practice—Challenge Exercises

Appendix A

Appendix B