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Braille Course

Lesson 11 of 14

Lower Groupsigns

Contractions written in the lower part of the cell.

Learn

Lower groupsigns sit in the lower part of the cell (dots 2, 3, 5, 6). “Be,” “con,” and “dis” stand for those letters at the start of a word; “en” and “in” can appear anywhere in a word.

Because they use only lower dots, they’re easy to tell apart from the letter shapes you already know.

  • bedots 2 3
  • condots 2 5
  • disdots 2 5 6
  • endots 2 6
  • indots 3 5
Your Turn

Write It Yourself

Braille is read by touch and written dot by dot. Recreate each character below in the writer — the best way to make it stick.

  1. be — current
  2. con
  3. dis
  4. en
  5. in

Character 1 of 5

Write:be

Keys F D S and J K L (or 1–6) raise dots · Enter checks

Practice

Keep Practicing — Contraction Sprint

Finish writing the characters above, then this practice activity will help it stick.

Tip Lower-cell shapes are the same as some punctuation — context tells the reader which is meant.