Omission
The Weekly Dose of Braille is created by our Youth Services Librarian and Braille Transcriber, Denise Bean, with the help of our Instructional Materials team. It gives you a taste of braille examples that may be used in worksheets or textbook formatting. It is a miscellaneous mixture of tricky, sometimes challenging circumstances, that a braille transcriber may come across or question. Provided each week is a downloadable PDF file on each topic, a brf file can also be made available for your convenience.
It can be tricky to know what to do when different punctuation marks are used to show a missing letter in a word. Sometimes, just the way it looks on the page can be confusing—and reading it with understanding adds another layer of challenge. This often pops up in worksheets or learning materials. But no worries—there’s a clear way to make sense of it all! This week’s Dose will review Grade 1 Mode and how to handle letter omission when it shows up in a word.
Great question this week from Sue, thank you! When looking for answers please refer to the Rules of Unified English Braille Third Edition 2024 https://iceb.org/Rules%20of%20Unified%20English%20Braille%202024.pdf
Enjoy your week!
Denise
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