Grade Three Braille
The following lists are intended as a reference for those good folks seeking a handy place to find grade three braille. They are not, unfortunately, spiffily designed lessons in grade three. There are sources for grade three lessons in books still available from NLS, and marvelously, now available via Web Braille.
- Haden, ruth R.
The braille code [braille] : a guide to grade
three : for first year high school
Published: Louisville, Ky. : American Printing House for the
Blind, 1963.
(Embossed by the Illinois Braille and Sight
Saving School).
Book Number: BRA03950
Note that you must be a Web Braille subscriber to access the book.
Access: Volume 1.
- Rodenberg, Lewis W.
Key to grade three braille
Published: Louisville, Ky. : American Printing House for the
Blind, 1945.
Book Number: BRA18832
Note that you must be a Web Braille subscriber to access the book.
Access: Volume 1.
In the interests of completeness and to satisfy some sense of esthetics which I cannot quite articulate, I've included the grade two contractions here as well. However, if you want to learn braille, you are strongly (really, really strongly) advised to seek a site which will both give you only grade two and also have some pedagogical underpinnings.
Here are a couple good websites:
Contractions Lists
Lists on the following pages utilize the Duxbury Braille font which you can download from Duxbury Systems
If you want to see the actual braille dots in print, but you don't want to download a font, click on the PDF.
The first link below is the master list, containing all the grade II and grade III contractions, followed by its PDF. the second pair of links is a grade 3 only list.
Please pass along
any suggestions or errors you find in the lists; we'll make adjustments as we can