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Building on Patterns the distant cousin of the Patterns Series! We got to pilot the 1st grade stuff 2 years ago and it is pretty great when you are busy preparing stuff for older braille kids and don't have time to invent a curriculum. Very good for teaching reading and works with most 1st grade curr. addresses same standards for reading but in a progression that makes sense for braille. The contractions are presented at the same time as the phonics sounds they represent.<br /><address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>Kristen J. Sims</strong></font></address><address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>Teacher of Blind Students</strong></font></address><address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>Vision Services OPSB</strong></font></address><address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>318-432-5400</strong></font></address><address><dt class="quote"><font size="3"></font></dt><dt class="quote"><font size="3">Only the educated are free. <b>Epictetus</b></font></dt><dt class="quote" /></address><br /><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(81, 103, 198); margin-right: 0px;"><div style="font: 10pt arial;">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228); font: 10pt arial;"><b>From:</b> Wagner, Gail Katona Y <a href="mailto:wagner_g@aps.edu"><wagner_g@aps.edu></a></div><div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> Professionals in Blindness Education Division List <a href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org"><pibe-division@nfbnet.org></a></div><div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Cc:</b> </div><div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Date:</b> Saturday, September 17 2011 12:14 PM</div><div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pibe-division] Any suggestions?</div>
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OK, can't believe I don't know, or maybe just having a senior moment, but what is BOP??<br />
Gail<br />
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<div>As Eric stated, we are big fans of BOP. I have used it with older students who already know how to read. To do the Units as a whole can be time consuming when a student already has phonemic awareness and grammar skills. If the student already knows the
alphabet and whole word contractions, you could start with 1st grade. With the 1st grade BOP, I reproduce the new contractions worksheet, the vocabulary, and the story. Often I will include comprehension questions to go along with it.<br />
I have done it the other way, too. Using the classroom text or reading leveled books along with Mangold and teacher-made contraction sheets. Often I would need to retype the books to keep from introducing too many signs at once. Having too many contractions
was very frustrating to the younger academic students who were struggling to remember everything in reg ed too.
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I found that my older students, who were already good print readers (or used to be) prefer the latter. You can move quicker and use material that they are interested in. I had a senior who read heavy metal music lyrics and Rolling Stone articles.
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I have to say though, I have a middle school student who did not have good reading skills, I tried the do it yourself way and she struggled. Her spelling lists had 16 words and all of them contracted. Now, she is decoding and is more fluent because I switched
to BOP.<br />
<address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>Kristen J. Sims</strong></font></address>
<address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>Teacher of Blind Students</strong></font></address>
<address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>Vision Services OPSB</strong></font></address>
<address><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><strong>318-432-5400</strong></font></address>
<address><dt class="quote"><font size="3"></font></dt><dt class="quote"><font size="3">Only the educated are free. <b>Epictetus</b></font>
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<td valign="top">Hello Everyone!<br />
I am a first year teacher, for teaching blind students and essentially for teaching period. I am looking for suggestions on how anyone out there is teaching their beginning readers. Are you using Patterns or BOP? Are you using your own curriculum? I am working
with a "fourth grade" student who did not begin braille until third grade. The entire code has not been completed yet. I am trying to figure out how to tackle this and what ways others have found to push the students along quickly. We are working on Nemeth
and she is picking that up beautifully, but reading seems to be a struggle for both of us. I am not sure how or where to begin. She did the Patterns series PrePrimer and Primer last year. So should I continue this? Is there another series? How does BOP compare?
I have been using 2nd grade reading passages, because she has tested that this is about her instructional level, but she is not familiar with some of the code. Also, how much braille homework is everyone sending home? Thank you so very much to anyone who has
suggestions!! I greatly appreciate any advice!!!!!<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);">educated mind to be </span><span style="color: rgb(160, 64, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 255);">able to entertain a thought</span>
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