I think my ability to spell had a great deal to do with the fact that I read
voraciously as a girl. Our school had a lot of books in Braille,
considering it was a public school, and I read every single one of them.
When I ran out of books, I began to read the encyclopedia, starting at A. I
think seeing the words in Braille helped tremendously, even if they were
contracted, because I began to develop a sense of the language.
Either that, or it was the fact that I was just highly competitive. :-)
That's a cute story, Lora. Not only that, but now I have an idea of what people mean when they talk about conracted Braille, which I didn't before. It's like learning shorthand. And I'm impressed that you did so well in spelling when you were, essentially, spelling in two different languages.
I don't remember seeing your name here before. Welcome.
Cindy
Long about third grade, though, they taught me to type, and said that I had to turn in everything typewritten thereafter. The first assignment I typed was a contractions assignment for English. Something about how would you contract can not using the apostrophe, and other such words.
So, I wrote c't for can not, and x's for it's, and when I had to write a sentence and used the word always, I wrote alw.
They had to explain to me why that didn't work, and I guess I haven't done it since. I am an excellent speller, and was even in school. I won a city wide spelling bee in sixth grade. To be fair, though, until I left high school, every book and assignment I ever received was in Braille, so I never had to depend on cassette textbooks, which I believe are a serious problem for those working on grammar and spelling during the formative years.
Just my two cents,
Lora
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Learning Braille
> Back when I was learning I had learned all my
letters and began the
> learning
> of spelling before I lost my sight at the age of
7. Even though I can
> visualize words in print still when I think of a
word it is in the Braille
> letters including the contractions. The one thing
that helped me with my
> spelling was getting on a computer. After 15 years
at a keyboard my
> spelling
> is great it is mostly typos where the errors come
in. I also have a bad
> habit of leaving words out when typing or adding
and leaving off S's on
> words.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jill O'Connell
[mailto:jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:48 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Learning braille
>
> I couldn't agree with you more on this issue and
it is amazing to me how
> many educators disregard the fact of literacy and
start teaching
> contractions immediately. I think it goes back to
teaching whole word
> recognition that was so popular for sighted
students years ago until it
> was
> discovered that phonics were extremely important
in being able to spell.
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 9:03 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Learning braille
>
>
>> Hi, Cindy. Actually, there is a grade 2 braille,
a contracted form, maybe
>> what you might call shorthand, but most, if not
all, people start out
>> with
>> grade 1, which is everything spelled out, as it
would be in print.
>> Sometimes, kids have problems with spelling if
they're not taught to
>> spell
>> things out letter by letter but with the grade 2,
because they don't see
>> all
>> the letters so never learn how things are really
spelled out. My husband
>> has
>> problems with that, so teaching kids to read can
sometimes be twofold.
>> They
>> need to learn how to read both grade 1 and grade
2, but when they're
>> learning their spelling, I think it's important
that they focus on
>> spelling
>> out the words and not just learning the
contractions. Take care.
>> Julie Morales
>> To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you
need to be in their lives
>> today. -- Unknown
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>> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:22 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the info, Gail.
>>
>> I'm wondering--if a bright sighted child who has
the
>> inclination and desire can be reading by age 3
(as
>> mine were, just from my reading to them and their
>> following along, and some books that had certain
words
>> in the story that the child could read when the
parent
>> story-teller cme to it--and Sesame Street and
Electric
>> Company), and if young chldren who are brought up
with
>> another language in addition to English is in the
>> house can be bilingual at a very young age, by
>> couldn't a child as bright as Kasondra's Andrew
seems
>> to be, who seems to want to read, also learn
braille
>> at a young age? I think Kasondra is right to
start to
>> teach him when he's three. One can make a game of
it.
>>
>> Speaking of which--I remembered when I was young
how I
>> enjoyed playing with alphabet blocks, and I
bought
>> them when my children were very young and played
with
>> them with them and made simple words which they
read.
>> But I've never seen Braille blocks. I gather from
>> posts here that one doesn't learn Braille letter
by
>> letter but that there is a short of short-hand.
Maybe
>> one of you could invent and create a graduated
set of
>> Braille blocks for kids. The first set would be
the
>> simplest words that they need to learn, and they
can
>> play at making sentences (Pat the dog; the dog
ate his
>> food). A more advanced set could be whatever the
next
>> phase is. And I won't even take a cut of the
profits
>> for my idea (lol).
>>
>> Cindy
>>
>> --- "Gail The U. S. Male" <gail1959@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Cindy, indeed, some forms of blindness are
>>> hereditary. Most totally blind
>>> kids start learning Braille in either
Kindergarten
>>> or first grade. The child
>>> could be taught at a younger age, I suppose, but
>>> most kids aren't.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>>> Behalf Of Cindy
>>> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:16 PM
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books
>>>
>>>
>>> That's a cute story, Kasondra. How old does a
child
>>> have to be before he can start learning to read
in
>>> Braille? Are you and/or your husband bind? Are
some
>>> forms of blindness hereditary? Forgive me if I'm
>>> being
>>> too personal.
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>> --- Kasondra Payne <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Cindy,
>>> >
>>> > I just walked in my bedroom to answer the
phone,
>>> and
>>> > I found my two-year-old
>>> > son, Andrew on the floor, trying to read a
Harry
>>> > Potter book. My husband
>>> > always keeps one on his side of the bed, and
>>> Andrew
>>> > just took off the cover,
>>> > opened the book, and started turning pages.
It
>>> was
>>> > so cute that I just
>>> > thought I should share it with all you guys.
>>> Andrew
>>> > will read Braille
>>> > someday because he is blind, but at least he
shows
>>> a
>>> > healthy interest in
>>> > books now. Yes, that particular book is very
>>> heavy,
>>> > but it was already on
>>> > the floor, so Andrew could move it easier
>>> >
>>> > Kasondra Payne
>>> >
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