​By: Samantha Zauner
Teacher of Students with Visual impairments

​Samantha created several fun file folder games for children that are low vision that are starting to learn braille. You may be inspired to create your own or download the templates she created for free to use with your students.

By: Carmen Willings
​Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments

​Encourage the student to develop their listening skills for literacy activities by helping them: attend to a story read or listening to a story on tape; recall details from a listening experience; sequence events from a listening experience; identify main idea from a listening experience; and summarize a story read or on tape. The following activities are fun ways to build listening skills. 

By: Carmen Willings
​Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments

​Tactual exploration and discrimination skills are necessary for future braille readers but are also helpful for all students in order to help learn to discriminate objects by touch to help make sense of the world. Unlike braille instruction for former print readers or those who are learning braille as a secondary reading mode, braille instruction for children with who learning to read with braille as their primary medium must incorporate more than just the braille code. Instruction must include the fundamental skills of reading and writing. Instruction must incorporate listening skills, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, comprehension and fluency. Here is a list of 10 phonetically based braille activities. 

By: Carmen Willings
Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments

​Students who are blind or visually impaired experience a loss in the range and variety of experiences; restriction in the ability to get around; and restriction in interaction with the environment. To minimize these restrictions, students need concrete and unifying experiences and need to be a part of the action by “doing”. Here is a list of 12 Concept Building Activities you can do with your student.