Accession Number: 2019.9.4a-k
Summary/Description: The fourth level of Patterns: The Primary Braille Reading Program, a series of instructional materials "designed to teach reading to children who will use braille as their principal learning medium." Hilda Caton, project director; Eleanor Pester, assistant project director; Eddy Jo Bradley, senior editor. "Produced pursuant to Grant No. G007500595 from the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare" --title page verso of pupil's text. The teacher's kit includes a pupil's text (1 basal reader in 3 volumes), worksheets, review worksheets, and a posttest, all in double-spaced lines of braille, except for the second half of volume 3 of the text, which has some single-spaced lines (two-sided embossing in text only), and teacher's editions in standard print; APH catalog number 6-78150-00. Kit items: a-c) New Friends (pupil's text) d) Teacher's Edition for pupil's text and worksheets (202 pages; includes 44 lesson plans and a skills index) e) Review Worksheets, Teacher's Edition (14 pages) f) Posttest, Teacher's Edition (13 pages) g-i) Worksheets (154, unbound) h) Review Worksheets (50, unbound) k) Posttest (34 sheets, unbound) The First Reader level "builds upon the vocabulary and skills introduced in the earlier levels of Patterns" (Readiness, Preprimer and Primer). It is color-coded yellow: pupil's text has yellow hard covers (buckram over book boards, with silver metal cercla binding), and Teacher's Editions have yellow paper covers (twin-loop bound for text; others comb-bound, yellow plastic). Worksheets, review worksheets, and posttest sheets are packaged in white envelopes. Print and braille labels are on all envelopes, except for the one containing review worksheets, which has a print label only. Includes raised-line tactile graphics. Kit items could also be purchased separately. Braille versions of the teacher's editions were only available through separate purchase.
Author: Caton, Hilda
Collection: APH Collection
History/Provenance: This kit was transferred in 2019 to the APH Museum from APH Research. It had been in storage with other project materials of Eleanor Pester. The First Reader Level of Patterns: The Primary Braille Reading Program was made available by the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1981. APH Research staff responsible for the project were Hilda Caton and Eleanor Pester. Eddy Jo Bradley, who had worked with publishers Harper & Row and Scott, Foresman, was the editorial director. In 2009, APH announced that the First Reader Level would be replaced by a new APH product, Building on Patterns: First Grade.
Credit Line: APH Transfer, 2019.9
Publisher: American Printing House for the Blind
Publisher Place: Louisville, KY
Publish Date: copyright 1982
Subjects: Braille Instructional materials Printing and writing systems Reading
Physical Description: 1 kit: 3 volumes of braille ; 11.5 x 11.75 inches + 3 envelopes (12.5 x 12.5 inches) of worksheets in braille ; 11 x 11.5 inches + 1 envelope (12.5 x 12.5 inches) of posttest in braille ; 11 x 11.5 inches, and 1 envelope (15 x 12.75 inches) of review worksheets in braille ; 11 x 11.5 inches + 3 teacher's editions in standard print ; 11 x 10; 11 x 8.75 inches
