Upper Case Letters
Identification of proper nouns and the importance of their denotation with the capital letter brick.
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Read the words.
Remove each proper noun and place it in a column on the left bottom side of the base plate.
Place the common nouns in a second column.
How to prepare
1 base plate
Letter bricks
Capital letter sign bricks
1 bowl
Write 6 words on the base plate, mixing proper and common nouns. Don’t forget to add "capital letter sign" when needed !
Facilitation tips
Correct brick manipulation to recreate the nouns is difficult without a plan.
Ask "How did you remember where to place the letters?"
Suggest "Tell a story using the 6 words and choose a way to indicate when you say a word that starts with an upper case letter" (e.g. stand up, clap your hands).
Possible variations
Add more words.
Add words that can be both proper or common nouns such as Braille/braille.
Multiple classification : first sort proper or common ... and then sort within the category using capital letter sign (persons’ names, cities’ names …)
Peer play : one makes the words, the other sorts them.
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Children will develop these holistic skills
cognitive skills
- Enrich the lexicon, acquire grammatical and lexical spelling: Develop understanding concepts such as: leaving spaces between words, joining words and joining clauses, learning correct punctuation, including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas
creative skills
- Describe an organization produced or observed
emotional skills
- Understand rules
physical skills
- Organize: find objects in their usual place; return them to their usual place; sort or categorize by placement, function, attribute; gather materials for a task
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Braille activity groups
LEGO® Braille Bricks activities: CHARACTERS
Learn braille letters, numbers, mathematic symbols and punctuation signs and know how to read and write them.
LEGO® Braille Bricks activities: LITERACY
Assemble characters brick by brick and play with words in order to develop the ability to read and write.
LEGO® Braille Bricks activities: NUMERACY
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