Strategies

Below are strategies for all content areas.

	Cross Curricular Planning: Seaside By Gwyn McCormack Theme-based cross-curricular lessons for children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities
	Introducing Young Children to the Mountbatten Brailler By Liz Eagan Tips on introducing the Mountbatter braille writer to young children who are blind or visually impaired
	Story Box for "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" By kimberlyd415 This storybox is a favorite at Halloween, using real objects and concrete tactile representations of items and events in the book.
	Top Access Tips: Measuring Angles (sighted methods of access) By Gwyn McCormack Tips on how to modify measuring angles for students who are visually impaired
	Apple Book By JFalcone This tactile book can help beginning readers to explore different textures and shapes
	Cross Curricular Planning: Camping Trip By Gwyn McCormack Many skills and concepts can be taught to children who are blind or visually impaired through a single experience or event, such as camping.
	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.
	People as Helpers: Cook By Gwyn McCormack Multi-sensory ideas for cooking in the kitchen with children who are blind or visually impaired.
	Setting Up Your Braille Classroom By Liz Eagan Ideas for setting up a braille classroom that encourage student choice and differentiated learning.
	10 Uses for Wikki Stix to Support Curriculum Access By Gwyn McCormack Using Wikki Stix to support the inclusion of children and young people with visual impairment and curriculum access.
	Sensory Areas: Weather By Gwyn McCormack This theme-based multisensory activity helps children who are blind or visually impaired to develop skills in all areas, including literacy, tactile, visual, and auditory skills.
	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!
	Sensory Areas: Toys By Gwyn McCormack These ideas for theme-based multi-sensory activities help children with visual impairments to develop literacy and numeracy skills, as well as visual, auditory, and tactile awareness.
	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.
	Sensory Areas: Growth and Change By Gwyn McCormack This theme-based multisensory activity helps children who are blind or visually impaired to develop skills in all areas, including literacy, numeracy, tactile, visual, and auditory skills.
	Sensory Areas: Homes By Gwyn McCormack These ideas for multi-sensory activities help children with visual impairments to develop literacy and numeracy skills, as well as visual, auditory, and tactile awareness.
	Making Inferences By WendyPatrone Activity ideas to teach students with visual impairments to make inferences
	Sentence Structure By WendyPatrone ELA lesson aligned with CCSS making sentence structure accessible to students who are blind or visually impaired.
	Talking Typer Tracking Forms By Liz Eagan Tracking forms to go along with the Talking Typer to document progress with students who are visually impaired.