Dear Teachers,

How do we help the learners in class 1 and 2 read and write without teaching them letters of the alphabet. See the presentation.

HOW?

Constructing Sound and Sense of Words without the repetition of letters in isolation

The process for facilitating  graphic reading

• Interaction
• Listening to narrative
• Taking out mental text
• Listening to narrative (using code-switching)
• Interaction
• Eliciting the idea given in the course book
• Presenting the idea given by the learners in English
• Writing the idea on a chart
• Reading by the teacher

( Each sentences in the course book is to be elicited through these steps)

Process for constructing a conversation

 

• Forming pairs and fixing roles 
• Interacting to elicit the initiation in each pair
• Mega phoning the text given by the learners in English
• Writing the initiation by the teacher on a strip of paper
• Reading by the teacher
• Eliciting the response to initiation
• Mega- phoning the response in English
• Writing the response by the teacher on the same strip of paper
• Reading by the teacher
• Teacher interacting with the pairs
• Presenting  the conversation by the pairs through 
• graphic reading
• Interacting before  presenting  the teacher version
• Presenting the teacher version
• Children attempting to read the teacher version graphically
• Forming big book

Process for the graphic  reading
of  song 

• Interaction
• Listening to narrative
• Interaction
• Presenting the activity to generate the text of ‘what is this’ and ‘This is a box’
• Teacher writes the text ‘What is this’ and ‘This is a box’ on the chart, just below the picture of the box that had been drawn  through step-by-step process
• Listening to narrative
• Teacher sings the song that the character sings: This is a box; a box; a box
• Teacher gives certain cues, so that the children create new stanzas to the original stanza.
• Teacher writes the stanza slowly and with appropriate voice modulation so that the children catch the sound  and spelling of each word (picture)
• The class sings the stanzas contributed by each child
• Blind reading of teacher, for which children respond.
• Formation of big book
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