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"The Pot of Wealth- An Innovative Learner Centered Story Transaction"

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Topic: The Pot of Wealth Class: 4th Skills: Reading and speaking.
                          This is one of my best story transaction methods and also a learner-centered teaching strategy. I strongly believe that teaching-learning material will always give twin benefits to teachers and students to transact and understand a topic well. Innovation in the learning material is an added advantage to a teacher to stick their student's concentration and achieving the targeted standards easily. And also it changes your monotonous teaching strategy into a versatile transaction.                             The main hurdle in establishing English environment in the second language classrooms is, teachers are not proficient to simplify a story and transact for 40- 45 mints continuously in English. So in these situations, learning material will help the teachers to transact the story in an understandable way without switching into their mother tongue. Here is my another trail to transact a sto…
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Role Play- Primary English lesson....What's My Name?

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Children are very interest to listen stories,stories help children to dream their favourite characters. Stories help teachers to attract children towards classroom and learn language effectively. So story telling is a art. Every teacher has a different style to tell stories. I want to engage my children by wearing the characters in that story. Wherever there is a chance to do role play I planned my lesson in this way to learn the story and language items through the role play. 
Wherever there is a story, first I prepare a BIRDS VIEW of that story and prepare the dialogs of the characters. While teaching the lesson I am practicing these with my children and give stress on those sentences. After this I will give these dialogs to my students ask them to practice.
These role plays help our children learn the language contents in an informal way and even low proficiency children also able to learn the objectives of the language content. Here you can see the lesson and characters of that story.


( WHAT'S MY NAME, A Lesson from AP Govt 2nd class English Textbook)

(Character of the fly- Student with Fly Mask)



(What's my name Role Play by children.)

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"My 3 Best Story Teaching Methods to Develop Integrated Language Skills."

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1. Picture/Story Cards Method:
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Language Games for Teaching and Practicing Vocabulary.

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Topic: Language games
Skill: Vocabulary
Grade: Primary or Young Learners.

                                  Learning a language requires a great deal of effort. Games help students to make and sustain the effort of learning. Games provide language practice in the various skills – speaking, writing, listening and reading. They create a meaningful context for language use. Here I am going to describe a few games to teach and practice vocabulary.


Onion Rings:


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