Braille
Market Shopping
Only buy things that start with the letter you pick. And don’t forget your list!
The Longest Word
Build a big word for a big win!
Braille Activity
Level: 3
Number of players: 2
Duration: 30 min
Skills:
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Read and write words
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Improve spelling
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Write as a leisure activity
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Engage in play with peers
It’s a letter puzzle. Find the longest word and win the game.
Goals
To develop vocabulary and word understanding.
The adult prepares
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2 alphabet baseplates
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1 bowl with all the other letter bricks
Give an alphabet baseplate (with 2 of each letter) to each player.
The children play
1
Ask player 1 to take a brick from the bowl and read out the letter.
Tell both players to find that letter on their baseplate and move it to the bottom.
2
After taking turns picking letters from the bowl, both players have the same 8 letters at the bottom of their baseplate.
3
Explain that to win the game, they have to spell the longest word they can using only those letters.
Facilitation tips
Niahm and Amirah move their bricks to find a word, but some children may be able to perform the activity mentally and won’t need to write the word.
Oh, it is a ‘H’.
A ‘U’.
‘E’!
Thats a good one if you’re making long words.
It’s an ‘N’.
‘M’.
-‘D’.
We have six letters.
-’T’.
We’ve got lots of consonants,
so it’s not very good.
Okay, an ‘A’.
Oh, nice.
Now you have thirty seconds to find the longest word.
So tell how many letters
there are in your word,
each of you.
-Five.
Oh, yours is longer, I’ve got four.
What is the word?
-’Human’.
I have ‘math’!
I couldn’t think of anything longer than human
That came to me straight away
I went, ‘oh, human’, that was like
everything I could think of.
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Use a timer.
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The 8 letters can be selected in advance by the educator.
