[il-talk] Braille contest

[Nancy Gardner]

Hi Hilda

One can participate in the NFB Braille Readers Are Leaders contest for a 
variety of reasons.

If one is competitively minded, you can try to read many pages in your 
category, hoping to wind prizes and national recognition.  As Denise said, 
there are different levels within BRAL, including the beginner category.

But you can also enter BRAL, as I do, as a way to improve my Braille skills. 
I'm also in the beginner category, and will never win any prizes for the 
number of pages I read, but BRAL spurs me on to do more than I might do 
otherwise.  For the two months of the contest, I try hard to read Braille 
every day, and to read more pages than I would normally.  In a way, I'm in a 
contest with myself, seeing how many pages I can read in 60 days.

Also, as Denise mentioned, the NFB of Illinois has a LIFE Group, a small 
group that gets together by teleconference once a week to read Braille.  We 
read aloud at the telecon out of the same book, taking turns.  We then have 
"homework," a certain number of pages to read during the week before the 
next telecon.  The idea again is to improve our Braille, to get us to read 
Braille on a regular basis, and to interact with other Braille readers.

If you have any questions, call me.
Bob Gardner
NFB of Illinois
Braille Literacy Committee
309.236.6606

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From: "denise avant" <dravant at ameritech.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:41 PM
To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Braille contest

> There is a beginner category and if you know grade 1 you can participate
> You can icrease your skill by reading
> Also you may want to join the life group
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 27, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Hilda Sandifer <hildasandifer at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> Hilda sandifer  here
>> I would like to join the contest but I feel my skill level is too low
>> Please advise
>> hilda
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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