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MB Pro Braille Writer: Unit 9
Challenges and Tips:
The checklist is primarily intended for Vision Teachers and Teaching Assistants
and therefore is a print document. Progress can be verbalized to the student, or, if
time allows, create a tactile version of the Contraction Checklist so the student
can more closely monitor their progress.
Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Explain to the student that it is important to know how contracted words are
spelled. Reading and brailling the words is only 2/3 of the puzzle. Mention that
when they start using a computer keyboard, the letters of printed words are keyed
separately i.e. the letter 'k' is the whole word contraction for knowledge in G2
braille but on a qwerty keyboard they will have to know how the word is spelled 'kn-o-w-l-e-d-g-e'.
2. Explain that you have created a 'Braille-Read-Spell' Contraction Checklist and
as they learn various contractions the checklist will be used to plot their progress.
Hall-Of-Fame words will be cross-referenced against the chart.
3. Show the student the laminated checklist and the washable felts. Explain that
differently coloured checkmarks will appear on the chart when they have mastered
the brailling, reading and spelling of the various contractions.
• red felt - brailling
• green felt - reading
• blue felt - spelling
Let the student know that the 'Contraction Checklist' will be updated once a
month.
4. Start the Word Box activity as usual.
5. Add any Hall-Of-Fame words to the Contraction Checklist. At this time ask the
student if they are able to spell the word. Many words such as 'not', 'it', 'so' etc.
can easily be sounded out; other words that are more complicated and they are
unable to spell can be added to their regular class spelling list.
December 2001
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