Student Instruction Programs
Mangold Braille Program, Basic Braille
This program consists of a variety of components. Unit 1 Tracking and Unit 2 Alphabet Program Kit will help beginning braille readers of all ages by providing a solid foundation on which to build future reading skills. For young, beginning braille learners, rapid finger movement is fostered, and finger movements that are counterproductive are discouraged. This program will also help experienced readers who demonstrate scrubbing, backtracking, and braille letter or number reversal errors. Adults who have experienced recent vision loss will also benefit from this program. The first fifteen lessons of this program develop tactile discrimination, proper hand position, and rapid tracking. The last fifteen lessons systematically introduce the letters of the alphabet. Each lesson includes criterion tests, braille worksheets, games, and more. The print teacher's manual includes step-by-step instructions and print replicas of each braille worksheet.Unit 3: UEB Contractions, Part A-E, was written for new readers who already know the braille alphabet and is divided into five parts so that teachers are better able to tailor the program to individual student needs. The parts are designed to be taught in order, but a student can skip a part if the teacher of the visually impaired has determined that the student has already mastered the contractions taught in that part. Unit 3: UEB Contractions is designed to help teachers of the visually impaired teach reading skills while teaching the braille code. All of the parts in Unit 3 are controlled for contractions and contain both reading and writing exercises. Common words and contractions, that beginning readers encounter, are introduced early in the program to help facilitate early reading. Punctuation and common math symbols are also introduced. The reading exercises include repeated readings, sentence tracking, multiple choice questions and clue activities. The writing exercises include sentence copying, sentence starters and open-ended questions.
Mangold Nemeth Code Number Recognition Program Kit was designed for students who are ready to learn the letters of the alphabet and are also ready to learn Nemeth numerals. This program introduces the braille numerals 0-9 and teaches rapid and accurate braille numeral recognition. The program is designed to avoid reversal errors. It provides practice in tracking numbers horizontally and vertically. The print teacher's manual includes step-by-step instructions and print replicas of each braille worksheet. The student workbook contains criterion tests, braille worksheets, games, sample number lines, and more.
Mangold UEB Number Recognition Program Kit introduces the UEB braille numerals 0-9 and teaches rapid and accurate braille numeral recognition. The program is designed to avoid reversal errors. It provides practice in tracking numbers horizontally and vertically. The print teacher's manual includes step-by-step instructions and print replicas of each braille worksheet. The student workbook contains criterion tests, braille worksheets, games, sample number lines, and more.
Building on Patterns (BOP)
Building on Patterns (BOP) is a complete primary literacy program designed to teach beginning braille users all language arts – reading, writing, and spelling. The BOP series addresses phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, and oral vocabulary. It is currently being updated for the UEB. Available from the American Printing House for the Blind.Braille Too: The Gext Generation
The long-awaited revision of the 1994 Braille Too curriculum is here! Like BRL2 Publishing’s previous products, it will be available exclusively in digital format on a USB drive, which will allow an individual teacher to print/emboss whatever copies they need for themselves and their students.Braille Too: The Next Generation retains the format and some of the content of the original curriculum but has changed and added content, which has been reorganized from 10 units in the original to 11 units in Braille Too: The Next Generation in order to accommodate the many symbols added in Unified English Braille. The teacher’s edition (available in either print or braille) contains over 1,000 pages, with over 600 pages of student braille reading exercises and 200 pages of large print writing exercises. Braille student and teacher editions are provided in both Duxbury and BRF formats so they can either be embossed or used on a refreshable braille device.
An introductory price of $400 for the complete curriculum with print teacher’s edition ($500 with braille teacher’s edition) is guaranteed through the end of 2017. Shipping is currently $2.67 for up to 4 USB drives in the same mailer (shipping rates subject to change by the USPS). Purchase orders can be e-mailed to info@brl2.com; checks or money orders can be mailed to the address below. (No credit cards accepted at this time.)
For shipping rates on more than 4 copies, rates on insurance (which is optional), or other information regarding Braille Too: The Next Generation, please contact BRL2 Publishing at info@brl2.com or call 801-572-5427.
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