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Learn how to write your name in braille

Teaching Braille: Lesson Plan 1 

A lesson plan is useful when working on a specific skill.
Let’s see an example: teaching a student writing his first name.

Many activities can be combined to achieve a learning goal like writing one’s name). A lesson plan builds progression through steps and variations, so that children don’t get bored by doing the same thing over and over again.
These activities are adapted here to the specific goal we want to work on. They will help the student to remember the letters of his name and lead him towards autonomy.

1. Twin Friends

Teacher:
Write the child’s name on the top left of a base plate.
Hide the exact same letters in a bag.

Student:
Feel one brick on the base plate.
Find the twin brick in the bag.
Place it under its twin friend.

2. What letter is missing

Teacher:
Write the student’s name on the base plate.
Remove 1 letter from his name.
Put that letter in a bowl, with 3 different letters.

Student:
Read the letters and decide which one is missing.
Find the missing letter in the bowl and complete your name.

3. Capital letters

Try this activity when the child is more familiar with writing his name.

Teacher:
Write 6 words on the base plate, mixing common and proper nouns, including the student’s name.
Be careful to leave a space of one brick before each word, common or proper.
Prepare capital letter sign bricks.
 
Student:
Read the words.
Place the capital letter sign where it is needed.

This lesson plan is an example. It shows how to be more effective and support children’s development of complex skills that require prerequisites and multiple steps to achieve.
 
Don’t hesitate to move on to the next activity even if the student is not completely comfortable.