Writing Skills

Activities and Resources for Promoting Writing Skills: Writing is an important aspect of literacy development for kids who are blind.  Activities pinned here…
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Typing Ideas, Lessons, and Tools title with a picture of  a student on an iPad with an adapted keyboard looking at the screen with large font words that say: TALL, I CAN GO highlighted on the screen. Writing, Computer Basics, Literacy, Special Education, Learning, Writing Skills, Learning Sites, Technical Writing, Lesson
Typing Ideas, Lessons, and Tools
Typing is a skill that can be challenging to learn for some of our students. Learn ways to make it less of a challenge with these tools.
A kinesthetic approach to letter formation and writing using Montessori materials and adaptations for low vision can help children with visual impairments to make progress with handwriting skills. Montessori, Teachers, Letter Formation, Handwriting, Adaptations
Letter Formation and Handwriting
A kinesthetic approach to letter formation and writing using Montessori materials and adaptations for low vision can help children with visual impairments to make progress with handwriting skills.
Sketch of dog's head Letters, Motivation, Student, Practice
Creative Writing: Letters from the Bark Side – Paths to Literacy
Creative writing through letters between a student and a dog can promote braille literacy and tactile skills through increased motivation and practice
Two images:  blue Unifix cubes with fingers of small child inside each one; Perkins brailler with green vertical strips separating keys Teaching, Ideas, Teaching Ideas
Keeping Fingers in Place on Braillewriter – Paths to Literacy
Get suggestions on how to help young braille students keep their fingers on the keys of a brailler
Find out how to use Pictello to create social stories, experience stories, and to explore social-emotional issues with students with visual impairment and other special needs. Social Emotional Learning, Student At Work, Development, Experience
Using Pictello to Write Social Stories – Paths to Literacy
Find out how to use Pictello to create social stories, experience stories, and to explore social-emotional issues with students with visual impairment and other special needs.
Watch this video demonstration to learn how to load and remove paper from a Perkins braillewriter. Resources, Paper
A Braille Letter Song by Queensland Department of Education – Paths to Literacy
Watch this video demonstration to learn how to load and remove paper from a Perkins braillewriter.
Sign up to get a braille pen pal!  This is a great way for braille users to keep up their skills during school closures! Distance, Braille Reader, Toolbox, Visually Impaired, Penpal
Braille Slate Pals – Paths to Literacy
Sign up to get a braille pen pal! This is a great way for braille users to keep up their skills during school closures!
Sign up to get a braille pen pal!  This is a great way for braille users to keep up their skills during school closures!
Braille Slate Pals – Paths to Literacy
Sign up to get a braille pen pal! This is a great way for braille users to keep up their skills during school closures!
Tips for teaching how to create a signature for individuals who are blind or visually impaired Improve Handwriting, Reading Writing
Tips for teaching how to create a signature for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
Try using APH Tactile Editing Marks Kit for creative writing assignments with braille readers who are blind, low vision or deafblind. English Writing Skills, Writing Assignments, English Writing
Try using APH Tactile Editing Marks Kit for creative writing assignments with braille readers who are blind, low vision or deafblind.
Writing: The Forgotten Focus for Literacy and Communication Instruction offers creative ideas for promoting writing with students who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind including those with autism or multiple disabilities. Learning Disabilities, School Psychology, Teaching Writing, Life Skills Special Education, Multiple Disabilities
Writing: The Forgotten Focus for Literacy and Communication Instruction
Writing: The Forgotten Focus for Literacy and Communication Instruction offers creative ideas for promoting writing with students who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind including those with autism or multiple disabilities.
Create your own accessible journal photo book about a summer trip or other special event using braille labels. Summer, Books, Travel Journal, School Days, Traveling, Journal, Activities, School
A Braille Letter Song by Queensland Department of Education – Paths to Literacy
Create your own accessible journal photo book about a summer trip or other special event using braille labels.
Using play-based writing to support self-regulation with students with autism spectrum disorder and visual impairment (ASDVI) Play, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Teaching Support, Communication Skills, Teaching Tips, Early Intervention, Improve Communication Skills
Resource Archives – Paths to Literacy
Using play-based writing to support self-regulation with students with autism spectrum disorder and visual impairment (ASDVI)
Get ideas of writing prompts for summer journals! Writing Prompts, Journal Topics, Writing About Yourself
A Braille Letter Song by Queensland Department of Education – Paths to Literacy
Get ideas of writing prompts for summer journals!
Create your own Mother's Day coupons in braille! Gifts, Toys, Collage, Mothers, Coupons, Mother's Day Coupons, Mother's Day Gifts
Mother's Day Coupons – Paths to Literacy
Create your own Mother's Day coupons in braille!