Guess the First Letter

Player 1 finds a word from one letter;
Player 2 finds a letter from one word!

Can you make the letters match?

Goals

To identify braille letters.
To recognise sounds and their function in word creation relative to personal experience.

The adult prepares

2 identical sets of 10 different letter bricks
2 bowls

Give each player one set of letters in a bowl.

The children play

Player 1 picks a letter and reads it silently.

Player 1 thinks of a word starting with their letter and says the word aloud.

Player 2 guesses the first letter of player 1’s word, and find it in the bowl.

The two players compare their bricks to see if they are the same.

So we are going to play an activity
and we will need to have two bowl.
You have your own bowl with bricks.
I have my own bowl with bricks.
Just pick a letter.
This one.
Yeah, but what letter is it?
V? Yes.
Can you find a word
starting with letter V?
Vertebrate.
So now I have to find the first letter
of the word that you said.
Vertebrate. So I have it.
Then you check around,
then you check if I’m correct.
And that’s the first letter.
I’ll say the same letters.
Yes, yes. Great.
So I succeeded. Great.
Now my turn.
I take a letter.
I don’t tell you the letter,
but I tell you that it’s
the first letter of the word table.
Can you find this letter table?
Yeah.
Let’s compare.
Can you place it on the table?
I placed mine and we’re going to compare
the two letters.
Are they the same?
Yeah. Yeah.
So we all succeeded. Great job.

Facilitation tips

Select letters which are easy to read by touch.
Increase or decrease the number of letters.
Ask the child to pick 2 letters and make words that include both of those letters.