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speed and accuracy.
Under the Writing domain, these activities include:
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Braille Scramble – Students are presented with a base word
and they must braille as many additional words using the
letters from the base word as they can. This activity is
designed to develop word knowledge, phoneme knowledge,
and may prompt discussions of new vocabulary.
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Blinking Braille – Students are presented with a word,
phrase, or sentence in braille, and then it quickly
disappears. The student must then reproduce what they
saw with accuracy. The activity is designed to support short
term and working memory, spelling, grammatical structure,
and braille writing accuracy.
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Repeated Writing – Students are presented with audio
recordings of words, phrases, or sentences and they must
accurately braille them. The activity is designed to support
spelling and braille writing accuracy.
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