

Braille
Braille Detective
Hi Sherlock! Use your brain and your fingers to find the mistakes!
Help! A letter has disappeared. Can you fix the word?
One letter is missing, now nobody knows what the word is! Find the letter and rebuild the word. You can even make your own words!
To write words.
To develop vocabulary.
1 baseplate
all the letters
1 bowl
Prepare an alphabet baseplate so that the child find the letters easily.
1
Ask player 1 to think of a word, and write it on the baseplate.
Remove one letter and place it in the bowl with 3 other “intruder” letters.
2
Tell player 2 to read the letters on the baseplate, decide which letter is missing and find it in the
bowl.
Player 2 completes the word and reads it aloud. Player 1 says yes or no.
Change the number of bricks in the bowl.
Change the number of letters removed.
Ask: What was your strategy for the activity? Did you try all the letters or guessed the word?
I’ll give you a baseplate,
A word is written on it.
But a letter is missing
and this letter is hidden
in the bowl among other letters.
It’s up to you to find it.
Annn…
An…mal
Did you find it?
Yes, I think it needs an I. Yes.
Can you read the whole word?
ANIMAL
Perfect. I’ll put a 2nd word…