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Braille for Everyday Use

Workshop 2: Letters d through g

Opening

Hadley presents Braille for Everyday Use, Workshop 2: Letters d through g.

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Now let’s start the new letters. Feel the braille in the top left corner of the page.

This is the letter “d,” dots 1-4-5. The letter d uses the top dot on the first side of the cell and the top two dots on the second side of the cell.

In fact, the D follows the shape of a capital letter D.

Below the middle line you’ll find three rows of d’s.

Place your fingers on the letter d at the beginning of the first row. No need to count, just feel each row of d’s from left to right.

Turn the page.

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Feel the two braille letter d’s, with dots 1-4, and 5, in the top left corner of the page.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of d’s.

Find the letter d at the beginning of the first row.

From left to right, count the number of d’s in the first row.

There are six.

Now, count the number of d’s in the second row.

There are eight d’s.

And how many d’s in the third row?

If you counted five, you found them all.

Whenever your counts don’t match, just pause or replay and practice again.

Turn the page.

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Feel the full cell and the letter d in the top left corner of the page.

Let’s practice reading the full braille cell and the letter d.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of braille.

Place your fingers on the letter d at the beginning of the first row.

Count only the number of d’s in the first row. If you’d like, press Pause to give yourself more time to count, then press Play.

There are four d’s in the first row.

Now count only the full braille cells in the second row.

There are four full braille cells in the second row.

And how many d’s are in the third row?

If you found three d’s, you’re right.

Turn the page.

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Feel the braille in the top left corner of the page. This is the letter “e,” dots 1-5.

The letter e uses the top dot on the first side of the braille cell and the middle dot on the second side of the braille cell.

A hint for e is to think of a gas-gauge needle pointing to empty.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of e’s.

Place your fingers on the letter e at the beginning of the first row. There’s no need to count, just feel each row of e’s from left to right.

Turn the page.

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Feel the two braille letter e’s, dots 1-5, in the top left corner of the page.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of e’s.

Find the letter e at the beginning of the first row.

From left to right, count the number of e’s in the first row.

There are six.

Now, count the number of e’s in the second row.

There are eight e’s.

And last count the number of e’s in the third row.

Yes, there are five.

Turn the page.

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Feel the full cell and the letter e in the top left corner of the page.

Let’s practice reading the full cell and the letter e

Below the middle line you will find three rows of braille.

Place your fingers on the letter e at the beginning of the first row.

Count only the number of e’s in the first row.

There are four e’s in the first row.

Now count only the full cells in the second row.

There are two full cells in the second row.

And how many e’s are in the third row?

If you found four e’s, you found them all.

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters a-b-c-d in the top left corner of this page.

Some people use two letters when labeling items around their house, such as d-b for “dog biscuits.”

Below the middle line there are three boxes that have two letters each.

Place your whole hand flat on the page, and use your scanning skills to find the box with the letters d-c.

The middle box contains the letters d-c.

Now, find the box with the letters d-a.

If you said the last box, you are right.

Finally, find the box that has the letters d-b for “dog biscuits.”

The first box has the letters d-b for “dog biscuits.”

If you missed some, just replay the page at the end.

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters b-c-d-e in the top left corner of the page.

Below the middle line there are four boxes containing two letters each.

Use your scanning skills to find the box that has the letters e-c.

The first box has the letters e-c.

Next, find the box containing the letters e-d.

The third box has e-d.

Now find the box that contains the letters e-e.

The last box has the letters e-e.

Finally find the box that contains the letters e-b.

If you said the second box, you’re right!

Turn the page.

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Feel the braille in the top left corner of the page. This is the letter “f,” dots 1-2-4.

The letter f uses the top two dots on the first side of the braille cell and the top dot on the second side of the braille cell.

F looks like the top of a capital letter F.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of f’s.

Place your fingers on the letter f at the beginning of the first row. Don’t count, just move your fingers across the rows to get used to the shape of the letter f.

Turn the page.

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Feel the two braille letter f’s in the top left corner of the page.

The letter f is dots 1-2-4 and looks a little like the print letter f.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of f’s.

Find the letter f at the beginning of the first row.

From left to right, count the number of f’s in the first row.

There are eight.

Now, count the number of f’s in the second row.

If you counted five, you are right.

And last count the number of f’s in the third row.

There are seven.

Turn the page.

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Feel the full cell and the letter f in the top left corner of the page.

Let’s practice reading the full cell and the letter f.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of braille.

Place your fingers on the letter f at the beginning of the first row.

Count only the number of f’s in the first row.

There are three f’s in the first row.

Now count only the full cells in the second row.

There are three full cells.

And how many f’s are in the third row?

If you found three f’s, you found them all.

If you found this tricky, or just want to practice some more before moving on, go ahead and pause here. Replay the page as many times as you’d like. There’s no rush. And if you’d like some extra help, reach out to a learning expert. We’re happy to help.

Turn the page.

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Let’s keep reading braille letters!

Feel the braille in the top left corner of the page. This is the letter “g,” dots 1-2-4-5.

The letter g uses the top and middle dots on the first side of the braille cell, and the top two dots on the right side of the cell.

You can think of a gift box to help remember the g.

Below the middle line find three rows of g’s.

Place your fingers on the letter g at the beginning of the first row. Again, you don’t need to count. Just let your fingers feel the three rows of g’s from left to right.

Turn the page.

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Feel the two braille letter g’s in the top left corner of the page. Again, the letter g is dots 1-2-4-5.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of g’s.

Find the letter g at the beginning of the first row.

From left to right, count the number of g’s in the first row.

There are four.

How many g’s in the second row?

If you counted eight, you got them all.

And last count the number of g’s in the third row.

There are seven.

Turn the page.

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Feel the full cell and the letter g in the top left corner of the page.

Let’s practice reading the full cell and the letter g.

Below the middle line you will find three rows of braille.

Place your fingers on the letter g at the beginning of the first row.

Count only the number of g’s in the first row.

There are four g’s in the first row.

Now count only the full cells in the second row.

There are three full cells.

And how many g’s are in the third row?

If you found five g’s, you found them all.

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters f and d in the top left corner of the page.

The f and d are very similar. The shape of the braille f follows that of the print f, and the shape of the braille for d follows the shape of the capital D in print.

Below the middle line you will find two rows of braille.

Place your fingers on the letter d at the beginning of the first row.

Count only the number of d’s in the first row. Press Pause if you need more time to think.

There should be three d’s.

Now count the f’s in the second row.

There are four f’s.

Some may want to replay this page before moving on. Go ahead and replay as many times as you’d like. There’s no rush.

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters f and g in the top left corner of the page.

Below the middle line you’ll find two lines of mixed braille letters.

Which line has the letters in alphabetical order?

The first line is in alphabetical order. Find where the d and f are in each line. If you want to check this out again, pause or replay.

Turn the page.

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Feel the d-e-f, and g in the top left corner of the page.

Below the middle line you’ll find three boxes containing letters.

These boxes are stacked from top-to-bottom, instead of side-by-side.

Place your whole hand flat on the page and scan the boxes from top to bottom and then back up to find the box that has the letters g-e.

The second box has the letters g-e.

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters g-g and b-b in the top left corner of the page.

This time you’ll feel two letters right next to each other, without any space in between them. You may find this helpful in labeling items like a “cream-colored coat,” because using two letters together instead of words saves a lot of space.

Below the middle line, find two rows of braille letter sets.

Find g-g for “green gloves” in the first row.

G-g is the second set.

In the second row which letters could stand for “black boots?”

The third set of letters, b-b, could stand for “black boots.”

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters e-e and f-f in the top left corner of the page.

You might want to use letters this way to label the buttons on your audio or video players.

Below the middle line you will find three boxes with letters.

Use your scanning skills to find the three boxes.

Now, find the box that contains the letters you could use for “fast forward.”

You would use the f-f in the last box.

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters g-b and e-c in the top left corner of the page.

Let’s look at using two different letters together.

Below the middle line you’ll find two rows of mixed letters in sets of two.

Place your fingers on the letters g-a at the beginning of the first row.

Now find the letters g-b for “ground beef.”

If you picked the last letter set in this row, you found it.

Place your fingers on the letters f-d at the beginning of the second row.

Now find the letters e-c for “eggplant casserole.”

If you picked the fourth set, you found the e-c for “eggplant casserole.”

Turn the page.

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Feel the letters d-f in the top left corner of this page.

In the top right corner you’ll find stickers for letters d and f.

Below the middle line you will find three boxes containing letters.

Use your scanning skills to find the box that contains the letters you could use for dog food.

The second box contains the letters d-f for “dog food.”

Peel the letter stickers for “d” and “f,” and place them next to each other in the second box to make the label for dog food. Or if you prefer, use the stickers to label your own dog food container or anything else around your home.

Turn the page.

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Here are some extra stickers with the letters “d,” “e,” “f,” and “g.” Have fun labeling items around your house, like your green beans!

Would you like to learn how to write these symbols so you can make your own labels?

Call Hadley at 847-784-2816 to speak with a learning expert.

We can get you started on learning to write braille!

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Completion

Congratulations! You know letters d through g.