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Beginning With Braille: Firsthand Experiences With a Balanced Approach to Literacy
An exciting resource from a skilled practitioner, Beginning with Braille provides a wealth of effective activities for promoting literacy at the early stages of braille isntruction. Includes tips on designing worksheets, teaching the use of a braillewriter, and facilitating the braille writing process.
213 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1998
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November 14, 2013
What ages would I recommend it too? – Twelve and up.
Length? – Several day’s read.
Characters? – Two case studies frequently referred to.
Setting? – Teachers teaching Braille to kindergartners.
Written approximately? – 1999.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? – Ready to read more.
Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Yes. The title presumes this applies to anyone learning Braille for the first time, at any age. However, it is intended for teachers, and possibly parents, of toddlers to kindergarten age who have not learned reading regular print.
Notes for the reader: There is very little about Braille itself in here. This is ore a teaching manual that gives interesting topic and ideas with examples. There is a Braille alphabet, and a few other useful worksheets in the back. It discusses the importance of contracted (grade 3) Braille, without a list of those contractions. It also does not cover teaching, or self learning, for formerly sighted, now blind people at any age, other than one case, who was a young child that had not learned to read print before going blind.
Length? – Several day’s read.
Characters? – Two case studies frequently referred to.
Setting? – Teachers teaching Braille to kindergartners.
Written approximately? – 1999.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? – Ready to read more.
Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Yes. The title presumes this applies to anyone learning Braille for the first time, at any age. However, it is intended for teachers, and possibly parents, of toddlers to kindergarten age who have not learned reading regular print.
Notes for the reader: There is very little about Braille itself in here. This is ore a teaching manual that gives interesting topic and ideas with examples. There is a Braille alphabet, and a few other useful worksheets in the back. It discusses the importance of contracted (grade 3) Braille, without a list of those contractions. It also does not cover teaching, or self learning, for formerly sighted, now blind people at any age, other than one case, who was a young child that had not learned to read print before going blind.
November 25, 2011
A good resource and reference for teachers with beginning Braille students.
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