Handbook for Learning to Read Braille by Sight

HANDBOOK FOR LEARNING TO READ BRAILLE BY SIGHT
Author: Leland Schubert

Review by Margaret Mary Myers

What a great book for sighted parents and homeschooling teachers who want to be able to read what their children write in Braille! You can use this book on your own, at your own pace. Working my way through this book was very 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.