Creative Teaching Ideas, Lesson Plans and Activities

Lesson: Elephant and Friends Class: 3rd Skill: Creative Expression      The first time I have tried reading theatre technic with my 3rd class children in this lesson. Roleplays give a holistic approach to understand the content and it stimulates the learning characteristics of all type of learners. So wherever a chance to improve the language skills of my rural background children I use to incorporate different methods. "Reading Theater" is one of the story teaching technics to engage the whole class and gives visual feeling to the children. You can find the entire unit transaction and innovative learning story wheel for this lesson and writing activity from below link. Please watch. http://www.rajclassroom.com/2017/09/innovative-story-reading-wheel-elephant.html Download the Video

Lesson: The Elephant and Friends Class  :  3rd Subject: English Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.                           Teaching a story is an art. If you use story telling as a strategy to teach a story it will able the learners to feel the experience and acquire the language informally. And relevant teaching aids will boost up the transaction process and visualize the events and characters.                           Theme oriented story materials are great teaching tools for teaching a story and develop the integrated language skills. We can easily narrate the story and get your students to practice the dynamic text easily. Learning materials are important because they can significantly increase student achievement by supporting student learning. This process aids in the learning process by allowing the...

 This Animated Picture Video is designed to support and understand the reading part of the lesson given in the Andhra Pradesh Govt Primary Class-II English Textbook by me, and the theme of community helpers. Children watch the story, acquire the new vocabulary, understand the meaning of the new words, develop the reading skills, predict a story, retell the story and aware the importance of community helpers.            The main objective of the video is to develop the reading skills of the primary class children especially to develop and create English environment in the class in terms to support the teachers to reduce the usage of the first language in the transaction of a lesson.            Here I am describing the transaction of the lesson using this video and supplementary activities should follow to achieve the standards of the lesson. Language Level: Primary and below Learner Type : Beginners Activity: Watch...

Lesson: Mrs. Hen and Her Chickens (Rhyme) Skills Targetted: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and Creative Expression. Class: 3rd. Subject: English.                 This is a simple and enjoyable rhyme in class III. Children enjoyed it while signing the rhyme. Masks gave a special effect to make the classroom vibrant . Later they were comprehend by a writing task. I have edited the video using H5P tools to make the video interactive. Writing Activity: Read, Colour and Complete the gaps.

Lesson: KIDS TRAIN, Class: III Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Creative Writing.              The Unit Transaction of Kids Train was started with a rhyme......     Here comes the train Blowing Whistle toot toot toot...... ................................ ................................. Chuck chuck chuck.  Once children choreographed the rhyme, I asked them to identify the key glossary and gave stress to read and understand the meanings of the new words. After that, I asked a few concept checking questions to check their understanding of the content. What is the sound made by the train? When do the passengers get into the train? Why does the guard Jhonson wave the green flag?                       Later I gave an activity to prepare a train model by pasting the parts of the train on paper and asked them to colo...

This lesson plan is designed around a short film about Horsley Hills in Andhra Pradesh by me and the theme of sightseeing. Students plan a sightseeing weekend to a hill station and watch a short film.            The main objective of the video is to develop the reading skills and understand the reading part of the lesson given in the Andhra Pradesh Govt Primary Class-IV English Textbook and the themes of the heritage of Andhra Pradesh, and learning the language.            Here I am describing the transaction process of the lesson using this video and supplementary activities should follow to achieve the standards of the lesson. Language Level : Primary and Upper Primary Learner Type:  Beginners Activity : Watching a Short Film, Speaking, Reading and Creative thinking. Lesson:  A Trip to Horsley Hills. Class:  IV Language:  Vocabulary in the lesson (gather, hired, weath...

Lesson: UUYALA (ఊయల) Subject : Telugu Class: 1st Grade Content: Introducing Basic Telugu Alphabets "UU (ఊ), YA (య) and LA (ల)" Language Skills and Objectives:            Children are able to identify the letters UU (ఊ), YA (య) and LA (ల).            Children are able to read the words having these letters.            Children are able to practice and trace the letters.            Children are able to identify the words in a paragraph.            Children are able to write the letters and words.                          It is a great supporting reading video with the worksheets to teach especially low-performance children in the class. What I have observed in my children, results are amazing using these videos in my classroom and the technology stimulating their...