Creative Teaching Ideas, Lesson Plans and Activities

Topic: Vocabulary, Grade: Pre-Primary and Primary, Skills: Reading and Writing.                      Vocabulary is the heart of the language, and it is the primary thing to speak a language. Teaching vocabulary is a great challenge to teachers teaching English as a second or third language. Children also face learning difficulties in spelling or writing the word correctly. However different learning-oriented activities will help to reduce the disorders in teaching vocabulary. Here are five practical activities to learn the vocabulary effectively. 1. Spinning Picture Wheels:                    Picture Wheels are one of the good TLMs in learning and drilling the vocabulary. You need to prepare such wheels to do the activity. This will help the children to visualize and remember the words easily and long. Along with them, simple worksheets will help the children to drill...

Topic: NAME Grade: Pre Primary and Primary Skills: Listening, Speaking, reading and Writing.                        This is one of my best activities to teach children's name and develop questioning to get his or her name. I did this activity in a part of my lesson to know how to spell and write their names of my children. I targeted the language function "Who is this boy or girl?" in order to get to know and write their friend's names along with his or her name.                                   I planned a speaking activity to drill the question "Who is this boy?" and answer "He is Ramcharan." by grouping three children in a group. In the three-member group, one student will ask the question by pointing a boy and another student says the answer. Along with that, I facilitated my students to identify the written fro...

Topic: Plurals Grade: 5th Skills: Writing and Creative thinking                   Activity-based teaching will always stimulate the children’s learning characteristics and turn the classroom into an effective learning environment. The main aim of the activity is to learn the different forms of plurals in an easy and understandable way.                This activity gives a holistic diverse concept on plurals. It also helps children to remember the plural forms easily. You can also use this as a comprehension activity. I prepare this “S” worksheet with instructions to create interest and do the task easily.                Later I guided how to cut and paste on a paper. And then I told them that write the plurals of the words given on the board in the right section by reading the instructio...

Topic: The Nation's Strength - Rhyme. Grade: Primary and Secondary. Skills: Listening, Reading and Writing..                              The main aim of the activity is to target the reading and writing skills by dictating the information to each other in order to get the complete text.                   This is one of the great activities to develop listening, reading and writing skills integratively. Mutual dictation will help the children to develop writing skills as well as reading very effectively.                    You need to choose a proper content to do this activity. You should prepare two parts (Part A and Part B) of the content which are having a different vocabulary of the same content. It means the words missing in Part A's worksheet should be there in Part B's worksheet. The "Partner ...

Topic: School and Numbers. Grade: Pre Primary and Primary Skill: Speaking and reading.                      This is a presentation slide based on the picture given in the first-grade English textbook of Andra Pradesh. I prepared this to enable the learner-centered classroom environment and create some interest to learn the language by using this digital material. And children can easily attract to the touch and learn learning material than regular teaching.                      In the below slide I enabled like if you touch on the picture you can the description along with audio. So children can easily learn their own and speak about the characters and place in English. You can download the slide from the below link. Download the Slide                      I designed the below "Numbers Slide" to...