Divided into five levels, Hands On includes practice books, a booklet of fun activities, and several real stories at each level. The whole scheme includes simple tactile pictures and puzzles to enliven the reading material. It is linked as closely as possible with the Letters and Sounds framework, while not compromising on the need to keep tactually confusing braille signs apart. 

Important

• The teachers’ handbook must be ordered separately.
• Hands On does not introduce the full contracted braille code – this is covered by the second-stage scheme, called Take Off.

• 32 practice books, which each introduce a letter, contraction, punctuation marks, or numbers, and provide discrimination and word-building exercises using them.
• 26 story books that can be read in any order once the practice books at that level have been completed.
• Five fun books providing a range of activities and games. Many include tactile graphics that consolidate and extend everything learned so far, and encourage tactual exploration and familiarity with simple graphic representations.