Braille Strategies

Below are strategies posts related to Braille.

	Travel Tins: Magnetic Fun To-Go By Liamsmom Parent-made materials that can be used to entertain emerging braille readers
	Braille Designs for Christmas By Edith West Braille Christmas designs are a fun holiday craft project for braille users!
	Adapting Word Games for Students with Visual Impairments By Liz Eagan This activity adapts the games of Bananagrams and Applegrams for children who are blind or visually impaired.
	Advent Calendar for Beginning Braille Reader By Liamsmom This Advent calendar for beginning braille readers can be used with children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind
	Build a Story By Liz Eagan This homemade "Build a Book" allows a student with visual impairments to flip through the book to find character, setting, event, and conclusion ideas for a story.
	Holiday Gift Tags By Liamsmom These holiday gift cards provide braille and tactile stickers to make them accessible to children who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind.
	The Library and Timeless Stories: Using APH Materials to Extend a Story By Kristie Smith These activities use APH materials to extend a story for students who are blind or visually impaired.
	Student-Created Braille Game By Liz Eagan A young child who is visually impaired created this braille game for a Kindergarten student who is blind.
	Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch: A Cross-Curricular Approach to Reading Readiness for Braille By Gwyn McCormack This cross-curricular approach includes literacy, numeracy, science and humanities including opportunities to develop social skills for children with visual impairment.
	Modifying Charts for Students with Visual Impairments By Gwyn McCormack Tips for modifying and adapting charts for students with visual impairments
	Using APH Materials to Extend a Story: Playing at the Park By Kristie Smith This activity provides concrete, hands-on experience to supplement a story for students who are blind or visually impaired.
	What Shape Am I? By Kayleigh Joiner Tactile book of shapes for students who are blind or visually impaired.
	Build-a-Word: a Word Game for Beginning Braille Students By Liz Eagan This activity helps young readers to build braille words making word families, as well as using suffixes and contractions.
	Sending Your Child Off for the First Day of School By Liamsmom Create notes in braille or with tactile markers to let your child know that your thoughts are with them on the first day of school!
	Braille Literacy Games By Belinda Fayard Activities and games to promote braille literacy with students who are blind or visually impaired.
	Tactile Color Words Book By Liz Eagan This post addresses the question of how to teach children who are blind about colors using tactile illustrations and braille words.
	Braille Schedule By Liz Eagan Braille schedules help students with visual impairments to anticipate what will happen next.
	Braille Sightword Search By Liz Eagan This activity helps braille readers to practice new words and contractions.
	Braille Tracking Sheet By Liz Eagan Create a braille tracking sheet to strengthen tracking skills of braille readers.
	Braille Word Search Puzzles By Liz Eagan Braille word search puzzles are a great way to reinforce word recognition and practice braille literacy skills!