[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Learning braille
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:54:03 -0800 (PST)
Well, emails are special, I think. A lot of people
here mis-spell words, but they are sound-alikes,and
spelled phonetically. I just figure you hear them and
either don't now how the word is spelled or are
careless, as am I at times, since I don't re-read my
posts before I hit send. For example, compliment and
complement --one is spelled with an i and the other
with an e. But it doesn't really matter here, because
we know what the writer means from the context.
Sometimes it might make a difference, though--Hunger's
Brides should be apostrophe s; I had trouble finding
it in the catalog until I tried spelling it that way.
smile.
Cindy
--- Julie Morales <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Jana. I personally think that's how braille
> should be taught all the
> time, but I also know it's not, unfortunately. You
> ought to see some of my
> husband's emails when he doesn't pay attention to
> spell checkers! Yikes!
> Take care.
> Julie Morales
> To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you need
> to be in their lives
> today. -- Unknown
> mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email):
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 4:57 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Learning braille
>
>
> Hi! When I was growing up, we had to learn both the
> uncontracted and
> contracted versions of spelling words. So when we
> had a spelling test, we
> had to spell the word twice if it was a word with
> contractions. I don't
> know how they're teaching it now.
>
> Jana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:03 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
> > mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email):
> > mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > ----- 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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