Paths to Literacy for Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired

12/05/2025

Creating interactive learning among our students creates interest, exploration, and uses a variety of skills. Using sensory bins for theme based learning touches on various learning objectives.

Creating interactive sensory bins among our students creates interest, exploration, and uses a variety of skills and learning objectives.

12/05/2025

Goofy holiday jokes and Windows key commands? Students can build their computer literacy by practicing a handful of key commands while navigating through a document.

Paths to Literacy Holiday HaHa. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

12/03/2025

Let’s have some fun learning about holiday traditions across cultures and develop our student’s concepts about graphic organizers! Graphic organizers are defined as visual depictions of the relationships between facts, concepts, or ideas.

Paths to Literacy Graphic Organizers & Holiday Traditions. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

12/02/2025

There are many ways to tell a story and in this example students who are blind or visually impaired tell stories on tactile quilts.

Paths to Literacy Tactile Quilts That Tell a Story. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

12/01/2025

Make your Advent calendar accessible to children who are blind or deafblind this Christmas using braille!

Paths to Literacy Making an Advent Calendar Accessible. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

11/28/2025

Yoga activities can help students to develop improved narrative language through a variety of imaginative and meditative stories and mantras which are inspired by the movements, characters and sounds. 🧘

Paths to Literacy Addressing Narrative Language and Self-Regulation Goals in Yoga Activities. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Paths to Literacy! We're thankful for all you do to promote literacy!
[Image description: "Happy Thanksgiving" on a blue background with a tactile turkey with sandpaper body and textured feathers in a yellow circle. Paths to Literacy logo.]

11/26/2025

Get cooking with these activities to explore and learn about the kitchen! These fun activities are designed for kids who are blind or visually impaired to do with the whole family.

Paths to Literacy Let’s Get Cookin’! Kitchen Exploration with Your Family. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

11/25/2025

TVIs (Teachers of the Visually Impaired) make a big difference in the lives of children who are blind, deafblind, or visually impaired! A mother of a child who is deafblind shares her thoughts in this post.

Paths to Literacy TVIs Make a Difference! Advice to TVIs from a Mother's Perspective. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

11/24/2025

Enjoy the beauty of the season with a leaves theme book and activity that promotes fine motor skills. 🍂

Paths to Literacy November Leaves. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

11/21/2025

What does the TVI specifically do to support early literacy development, especially for those who will be braille readers? This article outlines five roles of the teacher of students with visual impairments working with young children.

Paths to Literacy The Role of the TVI in Early Literacy Instruction for Students with Visual Impairments. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

11/20/2025

Nearly any topic lends itself to exploration through various multi-sensory activities. This sensory book activity focuses on the family, with examples of ways to engage in tactile, visual, sound, literacy and numeracy activities.

Paths to Literacy Sensory Areas: Families. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments