African-American ballerina Misty Copeland defies the odds and becomes a prima ballerina. Misty learned how to embrace her appearance and skin color in the world of ballet.

Includes exercises in braille, flashcards and a wall cheat-sheet.

Beginning with braille provides a wealth of effective activities for promoting literacy at the early stages of braille instruction. The text includes creative and practical strategies for designing and delivering quality braille instruction and teacher-friendly suggestions for many areas such as reading aloud to young children, selecting and making early tactile books, and teaching tactile and hand movement skills. This book also includes tips on designing worksheets, introducing braille contractions, teaching the use of the braillewriter, and facilitating the writing process in braille. Chapters also address guidelines for individualizing instruction, the literacy needs of students with additional disabilities, and assessment of student progress in developing literacy skills.

Whether students' learning problems stem from additional physical or cognitive disabilities, the inability to speak English well, or difficulty in making the transition from print to braille, this resource will help you help them. Equally effective for teaching braille reading and writing to children or adults, Braille Literacy uses a functional approach based on concepts and vocabulary that have meaning and utility to the student.

All the amazing facts in this book are strange but true. With clever, yet easy-to-understand visual comparisons, you will make sense of things that seem too bizarre to be real. In It Can't Be True! 2, you can see a hippo's mouth large enough to swallow a car, a truck strong enough to carry 90 elephants, and a jellyfish longer than three blue whales. Plus, did you know that all the world's continents could fit into the Pacific Ocean? Or that all the world's trees could fill North and South America combined? These concepts are brought to life with fascinating CGI artworks. Find out how much paper you'd need to print out the World Wide Web (hint: it's a stack taller than the height of Earth's globe), how much sweat your feet produce in a day (it could fill a glass), and much more in this collection of weird facts and world records from planet Earth and space, animals and plants, people, and technology. If you think it can't be true, It Can't Be True! 2 will prove that it is!

An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet. **Winner of a Schneider Family Book Award!** Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today. Award-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille’s inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louis’s world. Boris Kulikov’s inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books. An author’s note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers. Praise for Six Dots: "An inspiring look at a child inventor whose drive and intelligence changed to world—for the blind and sighted alike."—Kirkus Reviews "Even in a crowded field, Bryant’s tightly focused work, cast in the fictionalized voice of Braille himself, is particularly distinguished."—Bulletin, starred review "This picture book biography strikes a perfect balance between the seriousness of Braille’s life and the exuberance he projected out into the world." — School Library Journal, starred review

IMPORTANT - THIS IS A PRINTED WORKBOOK FOR THE SIGHTED! NOT RAISED BRAILLE. Easy Step by Step - GRADE 1 PRINTED Braille Tutorial for Beginners! Learn how to write the 26 letters in Braille Alphabet! Recognize each letter and number, know how to write them. THAT'S IT. The book teaches "HOW TO READ & WRITE BRAILLE LETTERS and NUMBERS". Great for novice learners. Write each letter, practice creating the dots at the right place.SIMPLY learning the absolute Alphabet and Numbers basics. This book includes uncontracted Braille - Grade 1!.Lots of practice pages, follow the easy visual study step by step explanations and examples. What is NOT Included in This Book: No Grade 2 Braille contracted pronunciation shortcuts. WHY? Because for beginners it would be so much information, before knowing the basics, how to write the 26 letters and numbers. NOTE - THIS IS NOT a STUDY BOOK FOR BLIND PEOPLE.NOTE - The Braille inside the book is printed NOT raised.Raised Grade 2 BRAILLE alphabet is used by blind people to read. This book can assist family members, friends and those who work with people that have vision impairment to learn the basics of Braille. Studying BRAILLE code alphabet chart requires to practice! This book includes dozens of practicing pages to help you practice writing the Braille grade one alphabet, until you can read the letters easily.

Join two young children on a mathematical butterfly hunt. The number of butterflies caught each day always adds up to ten. Who will win? Learn how to attract a variety of butterflies through the plants and food they rely on and about their life cycles. Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.

Biscuit's doghouse needs a fresh coat of paint, but when this silly puppy gets his nose in things he's bound to turn everything upside down--even the paint can!

Learn all about shapes with DK Braille Shapes. Designed especially for visually-impaired pre-school children and their parents, this touch-and-feel book takes readers through a collection of cut-out shapes with high-gloss and embossed tactile finishes. Each shape is accompanied by rhyming text, printed in both braille and clear printed text to suit the needs of every child and parent. Fully endorsed by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), DK Braille Counting is a wonderful book for exploring and recognising shapes with braille.