Texti-Sticks

Submitted by Liz Eagan on Dec 11, 2014
texti-sticks
These sticks were created for my prebraille student. We can play several activities with the one set of tongue depressors that have been adapted with textures:
  1. turn them all over and do a matching game
  2. sort by texture (soft/rough)
  3. same/different
I plan to create more of the sticks on a smaller tongue depressor to do patterning. The reason I used the tongue depressors instead of a smaller shape was to promote the student tracking across the stick from left to right as they explored the texture.
 
tongue depresses covered with textured red papertongue depressors covered in textured multicolored paper
Materials: 
 
texti-sticks collage

 

 

Common Core and Braille Standards
Kindergarten - Mechanics of Braille Reading: 
K.4.3 Track, using the fingers of both hands and moving from left to right:
K.4.5a Use the pads of the fingers as the reading surface.
K.4.5e Maintain a smooth, continuous movement.
K.4.8 Move the fingers smoothly from line to line, from the top of the page to the bottom.
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