Build ALPHABETICAL towers

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It is important to have your toolkit ready for an activity quickly. Alphabet and storage boards are a good solution.

Written by M&M consulting

Apr. 20. 2023

Building alphabetical towers on a baseplate.

The importance of having our toolkit ready to quickly and easily select specific braille bricks is clear.

We suggest making alphabetical towers of bricks on one baseplate and using them as a quick access to sorted bricks.

Building alphabetical base plates with children can help them to understand how bricks are arranged and then find them easily. They enjoy it as a warm up activity and appreciate finding the bricks as fast as they can.

This video shows different ways of sorting bricks on a base plate that are easy for both the practitioner and the children.

We have seen the importance of having our toolkit ready quickly

and being able to easily select specific braille bricks we need for an activity.

One option for that is what we call alphabetical or storage base plates.

We suggest making alphabetic towers of bricks on one base plate

and using them as a way to quickly access sorted bricks for both practitioners and children.

Let's have a look at the different options.

Bricks can be arranged respecting Louis Braille's decades.

The first row is from A to J.

The second one from K to T and so on.

We recommend leaving a space between each brick and each row to make it easier to pick bricks.

Make towers of bricks of the same letter so that you have enough letters to write short words.

Avoid building high alphabetical towers as it will be difficult to navigate between them.

One option could be to have several identical towers of four LEGO Braille Bricks

as their numbers are multiple of four and can fit in the toolkit.

Make a drawing of each LEGO Braille Brick on the base plate which will help

sighted people to place letters in their correct spot easily.

You can choose markers that are the same colors as the bricks.

In order not to have too many kinds of bricks on the base plate,

we recommend that you have an alphabetical base plate and a numerical one with numbers and math symbols.

Anayes, a seven-year-old girl, uses an alphabetical baseplate for the first time. She discovers the LEGO Braille Bricks and spontaneously starts to read each letter while singing the alphabet.
Despite a few dropped bricks, she stays focused and dutifully reads each letter.

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