1. Mo-braillity and Beyond
Including movement into your world of Braille instruction
February 1, 2019
Cecelia Quintana, COMS, CTSVI

2. The Benefits of Movement
Children who are active exhibit:
better focus,
faster cognitive processing,
more successful memory retention by
Increasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain
Alerting the brain that something important is about to happen

3. Labeling the world
Identifying/matching Braille in the natural environment
Beginning readers can find specific letters on signs, more advanced can read whole signs
Identifying/matching Braille that has been added to the environment
For beginning readers, put labels on common objects, have the student match their copy of the label and put it on the item (e.g., pen, book, door, desk, refrigerator, etc.
More advanced readers can just go find the items and place their labels.

4. Interviews Great for early graphing
Opportunities for improving social skills
Have the student make their own graphs and decide what should be included, when possible
Options for markers: anything self- adhesive

5. Sample Interview sheet – Boy or Girl?
boy or girl boy girl

6. Sample Interview – Shoe Types
,%oes (Shoes)
,t5nis %oes (Tennis shoes)
,s&als (Sandals)
,hi< heels (High heels)
,flats (Flats)
,dress %oes (Dress shoes)

7. Follow the trail
Braille up some jokes and answers and mark accordingly, if desired.
Using crunched up packing tape, make a tactile trail between the joke and the answer card.

8. Follow the Trail
You can be creative!

9. Positional cards game
Useful for learning short-form words (above, below, beside, etc.)
Emboss multiple copies of each word that will be learned, cut apart and indicate top corner
Have the student place the cards where they belong in relation to you, to them, to a phone that is playing music, or ???

10. Word collection activities
It can be fun to collect words from the environment and then manipulate them
Drop the pen – As you casually walk through the environment, or stand near an area where people are talking, someone in the group drops a pen or pencil. The last word that was heard when the pen dropped is collected.
Drop the penny – Open any book to any page and drop a penny. The word under the penny is collected.
Stop the book – Use an audio book and have the student stop the book when they hear an unknown or interesting word. That word is collected

11. Word collection activities
What to do with collected words?
Produce in uncontracted Braille
Produce in contracted Braille
Anagrams using some or all of the letters
Practice moving around the contractions found in the word to beginning, middle and end
(For example, collected word “federal”, isolate “ed” contraction, new words: educate, predict, fainted)
Use them all in an outrageous story

12. Beyond Alphabet create-a-word chart Braille Battleship Phobia corner
Mania Wall
And let’s not forget

13. “Beyond” activity – chart reading
Alphabet Make-a-word Chart
Plot the letters on the chart to make a word

14. “Beyond” activity – chart reading
Braille Battleship
Each player needs:
2 copies of the Braille Battleship grid
A Braillewriter that can accommodate 11 X 11.5 paper
2 different styles of pushpins (storing them on a foam cup works well)
Some type of backing that will keep the pushpins from protruding out the back of the grid (a double layer of cardboard is fine)

15. Braille Battleship (Cont’d)
Play progresses as in the typical game, with the students plotting their ship and their opponent’s guesses on one grid using pushpins, and marking their guesses on the other grid that is in the Braillewriter. It is helpful to use differently shaped pushpins to distinguish between hits and misses. =

16. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Phobia corner
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

17. Mania Wall
Dromomania

18. And let’s not forget…
Science experiments – reading fractions and measuring skills
Mad Libs -
Set up a fun facts bulletin board in your classroom
Ideas shared by attendees
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19. Thank you!!
NMSBVI - New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
CFB - New Mexico Commission for the Blind
All my students