Accession Number: 2019.9.2a-i
Summary/Description: The second 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 texts. The teacher's kit includes pupil's texts (3 basal readers), worksheets, review worksheets, and a posttest, all embossed in double-spaced lines of braille (two-sided embossing in texts), and teacher's editions of the materials in standard print; APH catalog number 6-78050-00. Kit items: a) Work and Play (pupil's text; 1 volume) b) Little and Big (pupil's text; 1 volume) c) Words and Games (pupil's text; 1 volume) d) Teacher's Edition for pupil's texts and worksheets (155 pages; includes 36 lesson plans and a skills index) e) Review Worksheets, Teacher's Edition (15 pages) f) Posttest, Teacher's Edition (11 pages) g) Worksheets (104, unbound) h) Review Worksheets (40, unbound) i) Posttest (20 sheets, unbound) This level, which includes a few raised-line tactile graphics, is color-coded blue: pupil's texts and Teacher's Editions have blue paper covers and are comb-bound (blue plastic). Worksheets, review worksheets, and posttest sheets, bundled separately in paper bands, are packaged in manila envelopes that have printed labels on front. 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 Preprimer Level of Patterns: The Primary Braille Reading Program was made available by the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1980. 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 the editorial director. In 2009, APH announced that the Preprimer 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 (5.5 x 11 inches); 3 volumes of standard print (11 x 8.75 inches); and 1 envelopes (15.75 x 13 inches) containing worksheets (11 x 11.5 inches); 1 envelope (15 x 12.5 inches) of review worksheets (11 x 11.5 inches); 1 envelope (15 x 13 inches) containing posttest (11 x 11.5 inches)
