Exploit text for Grammar

How do you teach a Story or Text Complete the table Name of the story Technique What you did Advantage/ disadvantage

Rational behind Exploit text for Grammar “ English is taught as a content subject, instead of skill subject though content is to be stressed but not too much “ Exploiting text for grammar means – Review lesson Plan / teaching stressing on skill aspect.

Pre – activity Step one – Material/ resources Three boxes ( different sizes) Wrapping paper, Tape Text / Picture book

Step - 2 Show the students three wrapped boxes of different sizes Ask them, what was inside those boxes? Brain storm many ideas.

Step 3 Let them open their boxes to check their guesses. Ask them how close were they ?

Step 4 What helped them the most ? Movement Shaking Smelling How would you use this in your reading?

This is Predicting

Step - 5 Show them a picture title of the story picture of its author

Picture What is unusual about the picture ?

What type of animal is horse ?

Make a sentence - fetch

Name the animal

This is a picture of

Write six sentences on the pictures shown. Predict what the story is all about.

How the Camel got his hump

Author RUDYARD KIPLING Writer of Jungle book Other stories – Golu grows his nose

Title of the story

Step - 6 Ask the students to predict What this story is going to be about ? Can the pictures give us any clues? The title ? The author?

Step - 7 Tell them to write what they think is going to happen in the story. Then we will see if predictions were correct Or Read incomplete story and ask them to predict.

A kind old man finds hidden treasure with the help of his dog. A greedy cruel neighbour kills the dog. The spirit of the dog helps the kind farmer to find and make more gold. The jealous neighbour ……………………………………………… ………………………………………………

So these steps should be followed for teaching text. What students can predict before the story- Predict words ideas about the story

Exercise Write 20 words you think might come in this text.

While the teacher is reading concentrate on the text and cross the word guessed by you if it appears in text.

Once upon a time there was a stone cutter. The stone cutter lived in a land where a life of privilege meant being powerful. Looking at his life he decided that he was unsatisfied with the way things were and so he set out to become the most powerful thing in the land. Looking around his land he wondered to himself what it is to be powerful. Looking up he saw the Sun shining down on all the land. "The Sun must be the most powerful thing that there is, for it shines down on all things and all things grow from its touch." So he became the Sun

Days later, as he shone his power down on the inhabitants of the land, there came a cloud which passed beneath him obstructing his brilliance. Frustrated he realized that the Sun was not the most powerful thing in the land, if a simple cloud could interrupt his greatness. So he became a cloud, in fact, he became the most powerful storm that the world had ever seen.

And so he blew his rain and lightning, and resounded with thunder all over the land, demonstrating that he was the most powerful. Until one day he came across a boulder. Down and down he poured and his thunder roared, lightning flashed and filled the sky, striking the ground near the boulder. His winds blew and blew and blew, and yet, despite all his efforts, he could not budge the boulder.

Frustrated again, he realized that the storm was not the most powerful thing in the land, rather it must be the boulder. So he became the boulder. For days he sat, unmovable, and impassive, demonstrating his power, until one day, a stone cutter came and chiseled him to bits. The Moral of the Story Sometimes the most important thing to remember is that you have everything you need already, right inside of you. Power is an illusion.

Expand the text With short, simple texts, get students to add an adjective in front of every noun an adverb to every verb. Select text from class VI or VII book.

The stone cutter Once upon a time there was a stone cutter. The stone cutter lived in a land where a life of privilege meant being powerful. Looking at his life he decided that he was unsatisfied with the way things were and so he set out to become the most powerful thing in the land

The stone cutter Once upon a time there was a young/kind stone cutter. The gentle stone cutter lived happily in a land where a life of privilege meant being powerful. Looking at his dull life he suddenly decided that he was totally unsatisfied with the way things were and so he immediately set out to become the most powerful thing in the land

Reducing the text Get students to reduce the text to exactly 100 words or reduce the total number of sentences by 50 percent.

The stone cutter Long, long ago there was a stone cutter. He lived,where a life of privilege meant being powerful. He was unsatisfied with the way things were, so he set out to become the most powerful thing in the land.

Give your reactions What I found most – interesting boring shocking amusing irritating baffling Incredible About the text Let the students talk about the text

Text Quiz Hand out the chosen text. Let them read. Make groups and let each group prepare 15 questions about the text. Let other group answer from memory. Swap the question sheet and let other group answer.

Group Task Select any story either from text book or from any story book. Conduct the whole process. Make a PPT and present it.