WELCOME
TO
MOTHERS ALMANAC
BY LELAND SCHUBERT
Book Review by Margaret Mary Myers
What a great book for sighted parents and homeschooling teachers who want to learn Braille in order to read what their children write in Braille! You can use this book on your own, at your own pace. I spent two years getting through it, because of various family interruptions; and it hasn't been the only resource I've used for learning Braille. But I want to say that working my way through this book has been enjoyable and increased my fluency in reading Braille (by sight).
Comprehensive and incremental, this handbook starts with the alphabet, a few punctuation marks, and numbers. After teaching most of Grade One braille, the book proceeds with Whole-Word Alphabet contractions, then the contractions for: "and, for, of, the, with," followed by dot-5 contractions.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry; after pursuing this book, you soon shall. I was pleasantly surprised to see my learning expand as I worked my way through the interesting, adult-level exercises in the book. An answer key is provided in the back, so we can see the word we got stuck on or perhaps that silly mistake.
This fun book is available from American Printing House for the Blind.
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