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Encouraging Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired to Express Their Feelings and Explore Imagination Lesson PlanEncouraging Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired to Express Their Feelings and Explore Imagination Lesson Plan
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Being expressive in a creative, empathetic, or imaginative way is not only fun, it builds good pre-writing and communication skills. Learners with visual impairments have a roundtable discussion session where several sentence frames are used to elicit creative or expressive responses. They work on building their imagination and connecting to others. 

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K - 12th
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English Language Arts
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