Braille Literacy 4: Contracted Braille

Course ID: EBR-931

Audience
Adult Continuing Education Program and High School Program

Course Description
Increase your braille literacy by learning contracted braille (formerly called grade 2), in which some words and letter combinations are represented by one or a just a few braille characters. The course covers all 189 contractions, some punctuation, and some special signs.

Media
The course is available in audio with a braille workbook. (A large print script is available upon request.)

Organization
30 lessons

Credit
1 credit

Prerequisite
Successful completion of " Braille Literacy 3" or the ability to read and write uncontracted braille

Overview and Requirements
Thirty assignments are submitted to the instructor. To complete the assignments, students make recordings and emboss braille. Students need to have the required materials and equipment to do so.

Grading
Letter grades

Average Completion Time
1 year, approximately

Objectives and Content

After completing Lesson 1, students will be able to
use eleven alphabet whole-word signs

After completing Lesson 2, students will be able to
use the alphabet whole-word signs

After completing Lesson 3, students will be able to
use ten short-form words

After completing Lesson 4, students will be able to use five signs
a. as whole words
b. as part words

After completing Lesson 5, students will be able to
use eighteen short-form words

After completing Lesson 6 students will be able to use six more signs
a. as whole words
b. as part words

After completing Lesson 7, students will be able to
use twenty-seven short-form words

After completing Lesson 8, students will be able to
use ten initial-letter contractions

After completing Lesson 9, students will be able to
use the dot (5) initial-letter contractions

After completing Lesson 10, students will be able to
use seven more part-word signs

After completing Lesson 11, students will be able to
use thirty-six short-form words

After completing Lesson 12, students will be able to use
a. single and double italic signs
b. the letter sign

After completing Lesson 13, students will be able to
use dot (45) initial-letter contractions
After completing Lesson 14, students will be able to use two lower signs
a. as part-words
b. as whole-words

After completing Lesson 15, students will be able to
use forty-five short-form words

After completing Lesson 16, students will be able to
use dot (456) contractions

After completing Lesson 17, students will be able to
use four lower whole-word-cell signs

After completing Lesson 18, students will be able to
use fifty-two short-form words

After completing Lesson 19, students will be able to use
a. signs for euros, cents, percent, and degrees
b. symbols for feet, inches; abbreviations for meters and centimeters

After completing Lesson 20, students will be able to
use dot (6) contractions

After completing Lesson 21, students will be able to
use all the lower whole-word signs in English braille

After completing Lesson 22, students will be able to
use sixty short-form words

After completing Lesson 23, students will be able to
use dot (56) contractions

After completing Lesson 24, students will be able to
a. use the part-word signs b-e, c-o-n, and d-i-s
b. use the part-word sign c-o-m

After completing Lesson 25, students will be able to
use sixty-eight short-form words

After completing Lesson 26, students will be able to
use single quotation marks, the accent sign, and square brackets

After completing Lesson 27, students will be able to
use dot (46) contractions

After completing Lesson 28, students will be able to
use signs for part words b-b, c-c, d-d, e a, f-f, and g-g

After completing Lesson 29, students will be able to
use all the short-form words in English braille

After completing Lesson 30, students will be able to
read and write electronic addresses and filenames in braille