Class 4 English (Santoor) Chapter 6, Braille, narrates the inspiring true biography of Louis Braille — who lost his eyesight at age three in his father’s blacksmith workshop in France and went on to invent the six-dot tactile reading and writing system used by visually impaired people worldwide.
What Class 4 English Chapter 6 Covers
Young Louis Braille & Captain Barbier’s ‘Night Writing’ recounts how three-year-old Louis injured his eye with a sharp tool in France, entered the Royal Institute for Young Blind Persons in Paris at age ten, and learned about Captain Charles Barbier’s complex army system of raised dots and dashes called Night Writing.
Invention of the Six-Dot Braille Cell & World Braille Day shows how Louis simplified Night Writing into a neat 6-dot rectangular cell (two columns of three raised dots) that fingertips can read swiftly, celebrated globally every year on 4 January (World Braille Day).
Exercises in Chapter 6
- Let us Think, Let us Speak, and Let us Listen comprehension activities.
- Let us Learn, Let us Write, and Let us Do grammar & writing tasks.
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FAQ
What was ‘Night Writing’ and who invented it?
‘Night Writing’ was a code of raised dots and dashes invented by French army officer Captain Charles Barbier de la Serre so soldiers could read messages silently with their fingers in the dark.
How did Louis Braille improve ‘Night Writing’ to create the Braille script?
Louis Braille simplified the complicated dots and dashes into a compact 6-dot cell (arranged in two vertical rows of three dots) that fits right under a single fingertip, making reading and writing fast and easy.