Paths to Literacy for Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired

10/17/2025

Try out this sweet butterfly braille art designs with your students! 🦋

Paths to Literacy Butterfly Braille Art Design. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/16/2025

Try out this braille design of a school bus with your students as they practice their skills.

Paths to Literacy School Bus Braille Art Design. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/15/2025

This lesson, designed by a TVI, brings out the "handyman" in our students by starting with a tool book and ending with a craft project that will be hung proudly.

Paths to Literacy Ruler Hanger for Pictures. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/14/2025

Use this creative guide to making a transportation tactile book as a starting point to make your own books with your students who have visual impairments.

Paths to Literacy Creating a Transportation Tactile Book. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/10/2025

Have you heard of the little old lady who was not afraid of anything? With shoes to "CLOMP" and a pumpkin head, this storybox is a favorite at Halloween, using real objects and concrete tactile representations of items and events in the book, "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything."

Paths to Literacy Story Box for "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything". For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/09/2025

This alphabetical reference list of objects, actions, and food can be used instead of pictures for language development, alphabet books, and other instructional activities. Most of these objects are readily available and familiar to children.

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

10/08/2025

It’s all about the experience! Writing a story about fall leaves is a great way to reinforce meaningful experiences for children who are blind or deafblind.

Paths to Literacy Promoting Literacy through Experiential Learning about Fall. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/07/2025

At Beyond Vision International (BVI), a non-profit based in Hong Kong, we use tactile graphics with audio descriptions to help the visually impaired explore culture, art, architecture and communities.

Paths to Literacy Exploring the Potential for Visual Impairment-Friendly Travel in the World. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/06/2025

It's time for the October Expanded Core Curriculum Challenge! October's theme is: Orientation and Mobility. Check out activities and ideas at the link or choose your own!

Anyone who works with blind or low vision students can participate -- make sure you register for a chance to win a gift card each month!

[Image description: Tile with icon of a person with a white cane. Text: "Expanded Core Curriculum Challenge. October: Orientation & Mobility." Link is to:
https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/october-ecc-skill-orientation-and-mobility]

10/03/2025

In this post, Math Specialist Susan Osterhaus shares tips for teaching transformations, line symmetry, and tessellations to students with visual impairments.

Paths to Literacy Transformations, Line Symmetry, and Tessellations. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/02/2025

Here are some practical tips to prepare your child to learn to read braille, include concept development, tactile discrimination, language and motor skills.

Paths to Literacy Ten Tips to Prepare Your Child to Learn to Read Braille. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

10/01/2025

Help your team understand easy ways to support students with complex needs by using this list as a conversation starter and reminder for how they can better access learning.

Paths to Literacy 10 Ways to Support Learning for Students with Complex Access Needs. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments