PBS Learning Media - Braille | Move to Include

Braille | Move to Include Lesson by PBS Learning Media

*This lesson was developed by PBS Learning Media and links to an external source.

Summary:

Students watch a short video introducing Braille as a tactile literacy system and learn how it works as a code of raised dots representing letters and words. Through background reading and discussion questions, students explore how Braille functions as a tool for access and consider how technology has expanded the ways blind, low-vision, and deaf-blind people interact with written language.

Our Recommendation when using these lessons:

• This video does not include audio description or a transcript. If you have blind or low-vision students, or students who process information better through audio, plan to provide verbal description of any visual content shown. We have written to PBS to request accessibility improvements.

• The lesson asks students about daily tasks where reading print is required. Consider expanding the discussion with this question: 'What are some daily tasks that rely on visual information only, where braille labels might help a blind person?' Examples could include signs with visual information only, or descriptions of photographs.

• You may also ask: 'What are daily tasks that sighted people do visually that a blind person might be aided by a text description?' This helps students think about access rather than limitation.

Subject and topic: English Language Arts (ELA), STEM

Grade level: 3rd - 12th

Duration: 30-45 minutes

Links to download lesson:

https://whyy.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mti17.braille/braille/