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Hi! I have a math book that sometimes has text that follows paragraph headings start on the next print line. Is it permissable to move the text to be with the paragraph heading?
Example: for the first few lessons in the book, the print shows the paragraph heading “Convince Me!” on the line above the rest of the text in the sidebar, but the majority of the book has them together. I attached a word document with screenshots that show this.
Second, many print questions have what I would also consider paragraph headings at the beginning of them. Should I combine the text on the following line with the first line that has the paragraph heading, or keep them on separate braille lines? I also attached pictures of this to the word doc.
Yes, it is acceptable to bring the text up. When “Convince Me!” is treated as a paragraph heading, keeping all the related text together within the boundaries of the 3-1 paragraph format is appropriate.
However, <i>Guided Practice</i>, <i>Problem Solving</i>, and <i>Visual Learning</i> seem different to me. I view these as being at a higher organizational level than paragraph headings.
I say that for two reasons.
First, they appear to serve a different function. They are more prominent and are printed differently from the paragraph headings in the sidebar and the labels used with the itemized material shown in your screenshots.
Second, this appears to be an early elementary book (I’m not sure of the exact grade level). In early grades, we try to limit the use of font attributes. When you retain a paragraph heading, you also retain the font attributes, resulting in numerous blue font indicators (in your text). With the itemized material, those indicators are unavoidable, but with the headings, you have a choice. Choosing cell-5 or cell-7 headings eliminates the extra indicators, reducing unnecessary clutter without losing any meaningful information.
See Braille Formats 4.8.2 for more information.
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