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Braille Detective

Hi Sherlock! Use your brain and your fingers to find the mistakes!

Braille Activity

  • Literacy
  • Spelling
  • Strategy
  • Writing

Level: 3

Number of players: 2

Duration: 10 min

Skills:

  • Improve spelling

  • Develop vocabulary

  • Develop tactile tracking skills

  • Stay motivated

Be careful, there can be all kinds of mistakes: spelling mistakes, missing spaces, capital letters. Will you find them all?

Goals

To read, identify and correct errors in short sentences created in a peer play activity.

The adult prepares

  • 1 alphabet baseplate

  • 1 baseplate


Sort the letter bricks alphabetically with stacks of two letters to make an alphabet baseplate. This makes it easier for the children to access the letters.

The children play

1

Ask Player 1 to write a short sentence including 3 deliberate mistakes.

2

Tell Player 2 to read the sentence, look for mistakes and propose corrections.

Encourage both players to discuss the corrections.

Now, you’re going to be the braille detective. So I have written a sentence with three mistakes.
You will have to find and correct them. Ready?
‘I’…
-That’s kind of difficult.
Can you continue?
-’in’.
So ‘I’, ‘in’…
And what is written here?
-”Y”.
Yeah. That’s the name of a city.
-’R’.
‘K’.
-Yes.
So what city is it?
‘I, in York.’
Yes. So ‘I, something, in York.’
‘I live in York.’
-Yes.
So can you check if it’s written correctly? This word. So is it a L?
Yeah.
Is it an I?
Oh, no, I don’t think it is.
I think it might be an E.
Yes it is.
So, we don’t want this brick to be here.
-No.
Okay. Can you remove it?
So remove this one.
Okay.
And that goes there.
So, there.
Okay.
And how do you spell ‘York’?
Don’t you think there is something
that we must add?
Capital sign?
-Yes!
So I’m going to give you one capital sign.
Here you are. Can you place it correctly?
Can you once again read the whole sentence to check
if everything is correct?
I live…
…in York.
Yeah.
And what is this very last?
Full stop.
-Yes.
Because that’s the end of the sentence.
Well done, detective.

Facilitation tips

  • Change the number of mistakes or the length of the sentence.

  • Work on punctuation signs, upper case letters, plurals.

  • In a bowl, place the letters needed for the corrections.