Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the early life of a significant figure from history and their impact on the world and a worksheet to select and record difficulties that someone might face if they were blind and suggest how they could overcome each problem.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record information about the background history at the beginning of Louis Braille’s career.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore and record information about the life and work of Louis Braille who had a significant impact on the development of communication in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.