Today i was in the primary two class all the way. The teacher retold the big book story that she had read to them much earlier the previous week. The use of MLEA was present as i saw how the activities related back to the english work. The teacher picked out a few words from the book and mentioned it to the pupils. For example, 'Push'. She emphasised on the word sh. The students were then instructed to say out new words which end with the sound 'sh'.
After a few rounds of a few words from the book, the teacher made the students sit in their groups with each one having their own individual whiteboards with them. She then allowed then to write doen words ending 'th'. The students then placed the whiteboards in the middle of the table in the groups. Then within each group, a person will have to pick out a whiteboard and then read the word on it and try to form a sentence with it. The group which gets it right, gets more group points which are noted in the whiteboard.
The teacher also had roundtable where the students will write as many words as they can with words ending with or starting with words such as ' sh' , 'th', 'ch' ... I felt that since it was like a game, the students put in more effort and were really trying to get as many words as possible! It worked well as the student's enthusiam was up and learning definitely took place!
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