Activity Based Learning

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Activity Based Learning

• English Class I and II

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What NCF 2005 says1

• English does not stand alone. It needs to find
  its place along with other Indian languages
• an across the curriculum approach

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What NCF 2005 says2

• English can occur in tandem with the first
  language for learning activities
• Reading is a transferable skill

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What NCF 2005 says3

• Language is best acquired through different
  meaning-making contexts
• All language is in a sense, language teaching

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What NCF 2005 says4

• a comprehensible input-rich curriculum that lays
  the foundation for spontaneous language growth
• The classroom needs to be an inclusive space,
  sensitive to individual learning styles.

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What NCF 2005 says5

• Language evaluation need not be tied to
  achievement with respect to particular syllabi
• must be reoriented to the measurement of language
  proficiency.

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What was done

• Analysis of Teacher Feedback over 30 Districts
• Fixing of a time frame/ladder for English
• Streamlining Evaluation for a Skill-based
  curriculum
• Textbook analysis to
• Correlate and fix competencies in the cards
• Link the themes to the milestones in the ladder
• Evolve the word list for the respective years

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Other criteria for word selection

• English words that could already be part of the
  vernacular like bus, station, market, cycle,
  shop, repair, phone, school, chair, table,
  balloon, watch, beach, etc., and
• English words that are a part of the childs
  day-to-day environment and experience, like
  mother, father, sister, brother, door, cow, cat,
  banana, house, mango, etc.,

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Word selection on the basis of

• Familiarity
• Themes
• Word patterns
• Functional use
• Sight words
• Action words

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Feedback given and taken A sample

• Motorcycle All difficult words removed
• Tractor Unfamiliar words not given
• Joiners not introduced in Class 1
• Train
• Pictures given clearly
• No. of Questions reduced
• Road Roller More cards given for Reading
  Competency
• Evaluation Cards streamlined and reduced
• Auto Patterns simplified and changed
• Whole Group activities shifted to Rainbow and
  Circle Time

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The Time Frame
This means English has 2 periods a week one in
the Morning, and one in the evening. So the
subject will have One Rainbow session, and one
Circle Time session
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What the Side Ladder Contains

• Rhymes
• Formal Conversations and Grammar activities
• Language related games
• Stories
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  Craft
• Puppetry
• Role Play
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  Riddles

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Logos Minimal Changes
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LOGOS - Redefined
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LOGOS - Redefined
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LOGOS Incorporated, Created
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Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Group 4
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Group 5
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Group 6
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Time allocation and MLL
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Basket of SkillsEvaluationEnglish
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Logos - Number
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Logos - Number
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Input-rich Communicational Environment

• Textbooks used to supplement Ladder work
• Supplementary Readers
• Parallel books and materials in more than one
  language Poongothu, NBT books
• Workbooks with lateral reinforcement inputs
• Media support Audio/Video
• Simply English
• Hello English