Thoughtful Choices:
Literacy Instruction for Beginning Readers Who Use Braille or Dual Media

Handouts Needed for Presentation

1.  Agenda and Objectives

2.  Handout List

3.  ABC Braille Study Quiz

4.  Planning Sheet for Guided / Assisted Reading

5.  Planning sheet for Analyzing Student Writing

6.  Student Writing Samples (3)

7.  Blooming Orange

8.  Snowy Day worksheet

9.  Ant City worksheet

10.  Leaf Logic worksheet

11.  PowerPoint Slides (10 sections)

BRAILLE Hard Copy Handout List

1.  Simulated Braille Examples from PowerPoint Slides (includes student writing samples)

2.  Agenda and Objectives

3.  Handout List

4.  ABC Braille Study Quiz

5.  Planning Sheet for Guided / Assisted Reading

6.  Planning sheet for Analyzing Student Writing

7.  Blooming Orange

RESOURCE HANDOUTS

General

1.  Resources and References

ABC Braille Study

2.  The ABC Braille Study: Results and Implications for Teachers (Swenson)

3.  The Acquisition of Literacy Skills by Young Children who are Blind: Results of the ABC Braille Study (JVIB) (Note: This article is posted in both .pdf and Word format.)

Reading Basics

4.  37 Most Common Phonograms

Assessment

5.  Individualized Contraction Assessment Recording Sheet

6.  Full Contraction Assessment (all 189 contractions)

7.  Accessing the online contraction checklist on the EBT website

8.  Dolch Word Checklists

9.  Zeno Word List

10.  Book Level Comparison Chart

11.  Oral Reading Fluency Data Hasbrouck and Tindal

Emergent Literacy Learning (Note: The three articles about IMABLE are posted in both .pdf and Word formats.)

12.  Tactile Sight Words and Familiar Names Checklist

13.  Sarah’s Story: Using the Individualized Meaning-centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education (I-M-ABLE) JVIB

14.  A Theoretical Rationale for Using the Individualized Meaning centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education with Students Who Have Mild to Moderate Cognitive Disabilities (Wormsley) JVIB

15.  I-M-ABLE: A Pathway to Literacy JVIB

Unique Needs of the Dual Media Learner

16.  A Second Look at Large Print Materials (Swenson)

Guided Reading: Teaching with Trade Books

17.  Analyzing Trade Books for Instructional Possibilities

18.  Suggestions for Planning a Guided Reading Lesson

Writing Instruction for Beginning Braille and dual Media Learners

19.  Tactile Editing Marks

20.  Editing Checklist for Student

Collaboration with Classroom Teachers, Paraprofessionals, and Families

21.  Mission Possible Sample

22.  Literacy Instruction for Students Who are Blind: A Framework for Delivery of Instruction