

Basic braille
Action !
Ready to wave, jump, squat and turn? Action!
Cling! Clang! Ah! Splash! Ooh! Whoosh!… What a tune!
What kind of music are you going to make with bricks and letters? You’re the composer, you decide!
To recognise letter-bricks and make their sounds.
To track a row and sing a rhythm.
1 baseplate
10 vowel bricks
10 equal-sign bricks
1 bowl
Align 11 bricks across the top of the baseplate.
Place vowel bricks and equal-sign bricks randomly, leaving a space after each. Put the other
bricks in the bowl.
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Ask the child to read the line.
When they read a vowel, ask them to say it aloud.
When they find an equal-sign, tell them to invent a sound.
So in front of you, you have a musical baseplate.
When you have the equal sign, you have to make a sound with your mouth.
When you have a letter, you have to make the sound of the letter.
A !
Oh oh
O!
U!
Oh! Oh!
U
Encourage personal creation of musical composition.
Suggest: Imagine and sing a song or a rhythm.