Jeff Liebermann wrote in
:

I have a
handout with eight Morse Code characters on it, enough to spell out
some easy words,

Good idea. Mind if I steal it?


Or make it a puzzle. Some text they're likely to know, maybe a long and
eventful paragraph of Harry Potter or similar, and translate for a short line
that uses only a few letters of the alphabet and that does not identify the
source text or content, but allows substitution to fill in other words,
completed by working out what other parts of the text are saying, or by
simple elimination within a word. I never did learn Morse well, never needed
to, but playing with that method with other people on an internet forum was
by far the closest I ever got, and the most fun. Someone would paste
something into a code translator, and instead of doing the reverse I'd start
with the few I always remember, E,A,N,S,T,O,H, and build on those.

It might sound like a lot for a young child, but if more than one are keen to
find out what's being said they won't need much motivating, that will take
care of itself. They won't remember every letter, but most adults who type
every day would be hard put to locate every letter on a QUERTY keyboard
without actually looking at one, what is retained is the memory of an
important process.