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Contracted Braille Writing 15 – Dot 4-5 Initial Letter Contractions

Hadley presents Contracted Braille Writing Workshop 15: Dot 4-5 Initial Letter Contractions.

If you don't already know how to read dot 4-5 initial letter contractions, we recommend first completing Hadley's Reading Workshop Contracted Braille Workshop 15: Dot 4-5 Initial Letter Contractions.

Let's check them out, turn to page 20 in the workbook. At the top of the page, read the Dot 4-5 initial letter contractions: upon, word, these, whose, those.

Now you'll write paragraphs using dot 4-5 initial letter contractions. The uncontracted braille paragraphs can be found on pages 21 and 22 of the workbook for your reference.

Start by indenting and writing these sentences as the first paragraph of a story:

In 1942, comma, capital word, WWII commanders needed a way to send secure messages that those who were enemies can't decode.

Officer Phillip Johnson, dash, whose father was a priest for Navajo tribes for years, dash, knew of these problems.

He grew up with those who speak Navajo words that were unknown to non, hyphen, Navajos.

He knew those Navajo words were contained in no existing written alphabet.

Now, braille the next paragraph:

The code used words whose meanings were designed to confuse the enemy, comma, like, opening quotation mark, eagle, closing quotation mark, as transport plane and, opening quotation mark, eggs, closing quotation mark, were bombs.

Whereupon testing it, comma, Navajos transmitted and decoded all words for a message in just 20 seconds.

Machines decoding those words took 30 minutes to send the same words.

At Iwo Jima, comma, six of those code talkers sent 800 of these messages in two days with no errors.

Those commanders of the battle saw the value in these Navajo code words and trained 400 more code talkers.

Start a new paragraph and write:

From 1942, hyphen, 1945, comma, Navajos used these code words to send hundreds of secure messages for the, capital, u, period, capital, s, period, military.

Navajos, comma, whose dialect is unknown to others, comma, used those words that were undecodable by non, hyphen, Navajos.

Why were Navajo words so hard for these enemies to unlock?

The code is based upon using those Navajo words in two different ways.

The code used everyday words, comma, but gave those words new, comma, unknown meanings.

These code talkers used the beginning of several words to make a bigger word.

Even other Navajos didn't know how to read, capital word, these messages, exclamation mark.

Let's try the next paragraph:

Upon hearing of it, 20 years later, Americans learned that Navajo words helped win, capital word, WWII.

The code talkers, comma, whose names were kept secret for 25 years, comma, were unknown to both military and civilians.

Finally, comma, those who were code talkers got medals upon the release of these names in 1968.

You can now check your work by comparing your paragraphs to the contracted braille on pages 23 and 24.

Congratulations, you've learned to write the Dot 4-5 initial letter contractions. Again, if you have any questions about the sentences you just brailled, reach out to the Hadley Braille experts at 847-784-2816. We are happy to help.