Pre-Activity Plan
The WCM-EOTO volunteers plan to spend this Saturday concentrating on English reading & comprehension skills. The outline of activities for the couple of hours is as follows:
1. Word Games - 15-30 mins
Through games such as word jumbles, find words within larger words, guess the meanings of words; assessment of the current levels of comprehension and comfort of the students with English would be done.
2. Reading Comprehension - 90 mins
Four comprehension passages have been selected by the volunteers with increasing levels of complexity and exercises attached to each. The children would read aloud the passages and attempt the subsequent exercises which further English comprehension skills, sentence formation and vocabulary; one by one. The selected comprehension passages consist of fiction and informative ones. The passages selected are as follows: Level 1: (i)Wishes & (ii) Woodcutter's Axe; Level 2: (i) African Elephant & (ii) Columbus. The first student to complete each comprehension with most number of correct answers would be given a prize.
3. Story writing - 15 mins
The plan for next week consists of taking further steps on strengthen the childrens' ability to form English sentences and an outline story passage would be shared with the students towards the end of the day's proceedings. The children need to write a story based on the outline and along with the moral of the story.
Post-Activity Brief
The activities this week revolved around improving the spoken English skills of the children through reading & comprehension passages. The volunteers this week included 1) Mita Naik, 2) Hrishikesh Chawda, 3) Asha Veigas, 4) Lini Karanath, 5) Deepanwita Mukherjee, 6) Glenn Pereira and 7) Heena Hinduja.
The activities began with a game where the children being given to solve some jumbled words. From amongst the students, Sunil Mane got all the 7 words correct and earned a prize for himself. The game took about 20 minutes time.
Post this activity, the reading comprehension exercise started with 2 passages being covered this week - 1) Wishes and 2) The Woodcutter's axe. Both are fictional passages with a pertinent moral suited for young minds to imbibe. Students started reading the comprehension passages aloud and were encouraged to decipher the meaning of each sentence one by one. Thereafter exercises with multiple choice questions and writing brief answers to questions were solved by the students and this time again, Sunil Mane got a prize for solving all the questions correctly.
In between these exercises, volunteers focussed on English grammer specifically on verbs and use of singular and plural words in sentences. This was to reinforce some basics of sentence formation amongst the students.
The proceedings for the day ended with students being given an outline of the story - 'The Tongue-cut Sparrow'. Students need to complete the story from the outline and submit next week. This is to further encourage the sentence construction activities started this week.
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