WELCOME
TO
MOTHERS ALMANAC
BY LOUISE JOHNSON
Book Review by Margaret Mary Myers
Would you like to start teaching your child to read using braille? Here is an ideal set of books for you, as a parent, to use in giving your child that head start for school.
Or, if you homeschool, this would be an ideal place to begin. It would seem to me that these books would also be good for those special ed or itinerant teachers who may or may not have a lot of experience with braille yet.
You don't need to have a prior knowledge of braille to use these books. The Teacher's Guide provides all the information that you need, including how to teach the child tracking. All you need is the books, a Perkins braillewriter, and a few minutes a day.
Level One introduces the letters of the alphabet and beginning sounds. Level Two introduces three-letter words with short vowel sounds, writing sentences, and the numbers 0 to 20.
Even for an older child who already knows how to read in print and now must learn braille, I feel thse books are worthwhile; I am going through them quickly with my ten year old son, who is now loearning braille, to give him some extra success and to help him learn tracking.
The books are $40 for each level or $75 for the set. Each level includes a consumable student text and the teacher's guide. To order yours, or to learn more, click here to visit the author's informative website.
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