Note: Listening and Speaking section will be in Black & Reading and Writing section will be in Maroon colour.

Listening and Speaking

Daily:

Total Physical Response (to be done before every session)

Note to the Teacher: Refer to the Week 1, Day 1 of Fruits topic’s detailed asset.

Refer to the given LTM Video Warm Up Exercise given in Week 1, to conduct the above activity.

Day 1

Story

Content:

Story session can be done over a period of one week: – 

• Story session can be done over a period of one week: – 
  1. The teacher shows the animated book of the story.
  2. The teacher tells the story with the use of posters in her own voice.
  3. The teacher can tell the story by giving breaks, which can be filled in by the children.
  4. The teacher can ask simple questions to check if the children have understood the story.
  5. The teacher can make the children do a role play of this story.
• While telling the story, the teacher can ask the children to form a 3-row semi-circle seating arrangement. This would help the teacher have eye contact with all the students.
• Once all the children are settled, the teacher will request that all the children sit down quietly and listen to the story ‘Fruits are good for health.’

Note to the Teacher: 

The teacher can tell this story in the regional language. While narrating the story in the regional language the teacher can add English words, particularly names of the fruits in the story along with the regional language words. As the story proceeds, she can pause after she repeats the fruits in the regional language and wait for responses from the children to see if they can supply the English word. This will catch the children’s attention to the story and at the same time reinforce the vocabulary.

The teacher can ask the children to form a 3-row semi-circle seating arrangement. This would help the teacher make eye contact with all the students. Once all the children are settled, the teacher requests that all the children sit down quietly and listen to the story ” Fruits are good for health.’

Story: Fruits are good for health

Anuj was a weak boy. He used to fall sick very often.

One day as Anuj was getting ready to go to bed his mother said, “Anuj, do you know why you fall sick often? Because you don’t like apples or any other fruit and so don’t eat them.”

“I do not like to eat fruit ma. I like chips and cakes” said Anuj.

Mother smiled and said, “If you stop eating these unhealthy foods and eat one apple every day, it will keep you healthy and make you strong. And if you are strong, then you will not fall sick and so you don’t have to go to the doctor. Simple!”

 “Oh! Really?” asked Anuj.

Mother said, “Let us try from tomorrow.” 

The next day Anuj was getting ready for school. Mother called out, “Anuj, come here breakfast is ready. I have cut an apple. Come on, Eat them.” Anuj looked at her and said, “Ok ma, I will eat these apples.” He took the plate of apples and ate them making a face because he didn’t like the taste.

It continued for a week. Slowly Anuj felt he was becoming stronger.

One day he came back from school and told his mother, “Amma, do you know? I could run fast in school today. Even faster than Mahesh who is a good runner. You are right. I feel fresh and stronger now. I think it is because I eat an apple every day.”

Mother gave him a pat on his back and said “You are a good boy. Just as you eat apples every day, you should eat bananas, oranges and other fruits too. All fruits are good for health. They will keep you healthy and make you strong, and then you don’t have to go to the doctor.”

Anuj said, “Yes ma. I’ll eat all the fruits from today.”

Key skill/knowledge the child will acquire: Children are able to narrate and learn the importance of fruits through a story. 

Story: Storybook ‘Fruits are good for Health’

Audio: Storybook ‘Fruits are good for Health’

Click and watch the animated storybook. This animated storybook is to be shown to children during the class. For the children with low vision the Audio Book can be played.

Video: Animated Storybook ‘Fruits are good for Health’

The teacher shows the animated book of the story and makes the children familiar with the characters and sequences in the story.

Day 2

The teacher narrates the story with the use of posters in his/her own voice first in English, then translates it to regional language, to catch the attention and interest of the children. The teacher can use voice modulation and use the animated storybook and audio storybook as aids.

Refer to the given Animated Storybook and Audio Book (Week 4 Day 1) – Link to be given here to conduct the above activity.

Day 3

The teacher can tell the story line by line in English and explain the meaning and discuss the benefits of eating fruits. Children listen with comprehension when the story is told, and understand the events at different time intervals.

Refer to the given Animated Storybook and Audio Book (Week 4 Day 1) – Link to be given here to conduct the above activity.

Day 4

The teacher can ask simple questions in English initially; accept answers in the regional language. Students can give the answers in one or two words. Use echo questions to check understanding. These questions are asked after explaining each line towards the end of the story time to check if students have understood the story. The teacher uses a rising tone at the end of the question when asking the question.

Note to the Teacher

The teacher shows the poster of the story and asks, “What story did we hear yesterday?” Children start responding as a group. The teacher will listen for some time to the group response. This will help all the children remember some points. After some time, the teacher will say, “Whoever wants to answer will raise the hand and I will ask you turn by turn”

Echo Questions

1. Eat one apple a day to keep you healthy. Eat one apple a day to keep you __________
   Ans: Healthy.
2. Apple will make you strong. Apple will make you ________
   Ans: Strong
3. We should eat fruits to keep healthy. We should eat __________ to keep healthy.
   Ans: Fruits
4. Fruits are tasty, fruits are juicy. Fruits are tasty, fruits are _________.
   Ans: Juicy

Simple Questions

1. What did the mother tell Anuj?
   Answer: “You should eat one apple a day to keep you healthy!”
2. Name the fruit that mother cut for breakfast.
   Answer: Apple
3. Why should we eat fruits?
   Answer: We should eat fruits to keep us healthy and strong.

The teacher can continue to ask simple questions similarly. 

Day 5

The teacher can make the children do a role play of the above story and discuss the sequence and role played by the different characters.

Note to the Teacher: The teacher can conclude the session by talking about the importance of fruits in their daily life.

Reading and Writing

Day 1

Demonstration: Making Orange Juice

Procedure: 
In continuation of the conversation circle during the LS session, the teacher tells the students that they will learn how to make Orange juice.

• The teacher writes ‘Orange Juice’ on the blackboard.
• The teacher demonstrates the process.
• The teacher counts the number of oranges they will be using to make the juice.
• The teacher will mention “we are using ___ number of oranges to make the juice.
• The teacher will ‘cut the oranges’, saying “Cut the oranges.”
• The teacher will ‘squeeze the oranges’, saying “Squeeze the oranges.”
• The teacher will mix sugar, saying “mix the sugar”.
• “Orange Juice is ready”.

The teacher writes the key words on the black board. (cut, squeeze, mix, sugar)

Note: If possible, the teacher can give all the children some orange juice to taste.

Click and watch the video. These videos are to be shown to children during the activity. When there are children with hearing impairment in the inclusive class, use the video with Indian Sign Language (ISL).

Video: Making of Orange Juice

ISL Video: Making of Orange Juice

Day 2

Introducing New Concept: One and Many 

• The teacher asks the students, “Children, do you remember what we did yesterday?”
• Students may reply, “We made orange juice”. 
• Teacher: “Children, do you remember how many oranges we used to make the juice?”
• The students may answer, many oranges.
• The teacher will make a table on the blackboard with two columns and write ‘One’ and ‘Many’ in each column.
• The teacher will stick the ‘Many Oranges’ flashcards, under the ‘Many’ column.
• Then the teacher will show the flash card of ‘One Orange’ and read ‘One Orange’, and stick it under the ‘One’ column.
• Then the teacher may repeat the process with other fruits. (banana/bananas, guava/guavas, apple/apples, grape/grapes, pomegranate/pomegranates).
• After showing one or two demonstrations, the teacher may call students individually to pick the flashcards of one and many and stick the flashcards in the correct column.

Follow up Activity: Worksheet – One and Many 

Flashcard: One Fruit and Many

Worksheet: One and Many

Click and watch the video. This video is to be viewed by the teachers before the activity to understand how to conduct the activity during the class.

Video: Introducing New Concept – One and Many

Day 3

Introducing New Concept

Game – House of One and House of Many

• The teacher must introduce the plural form with the suffix ‘s’only. 
• The teacher will draw two big circles on the floor. One of these circles will be named, ‘House of One’ and the other circle will be named ‘House of Many’. 
• All the students will be seated on one side of the classroom.
• The teacher will call 4 – 5 students forward.
• If the teacher shows the flashcard of ‘one fruit’ example ‘one apple’, the students must go to the ‘House of One’.
• If the teacher shows the flashcard of ‘many fruits’, for example ‘many apples’, the students will go to the house of ‘Many’.
• Similarly, all the other children can get their turn to play the game.
• The teacher must ensure that when showing the flashcards, all the students must be able to see. Repetition will help reinforce the concept.
• Many fruits can be included depending on the number of the children in the class.

Key skill/knowledge the child will acquire: Students will learn the process of making orange juice. They will learn key words, juice, cut, squeeze, mix, sugar, and the concept of one and many.

Click and watch the video. This video is to be viewed by the teachers before the activity to understand how to conduct the activity during the class.

Video: Game – House of One and House of Many

Day 4

Reading Comprehension Passage – Fruits are Good for health.

• Teacher writes the comprehension passage on the board.
  Anuj is a small boy. He is six years old.
  Anuj is not a strong boy. He falls ill very often.
  He likes to eat chips and cakes.
  Mother tells Anuj he must eat fruits every day to be strong. 
  Anuj starts to eat one apple every day. 
  Anuj wants to be strong and healthy. 
• Encourage imagination! Creative Drawing. Students would have just listened to the story ‘Fruits are Good for Health’ during the LS session.
• During the RW time, the teacher can distribute the drawing notebook and ask the students to draw anything they like to draw from the story. 
• Give students enough time to engage deeply with their imaginative artistic work. The teacher can walk around the classroom and if some students require help, the teacher can assist. 
• Those students who can copy-write the story title ‘Fruits are good for health’ can write it on their drawing paper. Those students who cannot write the title yet, teachers can assist/write the title for these students. 

Day 5

Comprehension Passage
Read the Passage and Fill in the Blanks

• The teacher writes the comprehension passage (extract from the story) on the black board, (or uses the LTM poster provided) again.
  Anuj is a small boy. He is six years old.
  Anuj is not a strong boy. He falls ill very often.
  He likes to eat chips and cakes.
  Mother tells Anuj he must eat fruits every day to be strong. 
  Anuj starts to eat one apple every day. 
  Anuj wants to be strong and healthy. 
• The teacher reads the comprehension passage loudly, pointing word by word.
• Then the teacher writes four simple sentences on the blackboard. 
  1. Anuj is ______ years old.
  2. Anuj likes to eat _______ and cakes. 
  3. Eat fruits every day to be  _________. 
  4. ________ wants to be strong and Healthy. 
• The teacher will demonstrate and explain how to fill in the blanks with the correct word from the passage. 
• The teacher will distribute the worksheet, and students will copy the right answer from the black board.
  (If Scissors are available, when completing this worksheet, the students may also cut the words and paste).

Worksheet: Comprehension Passage – Fill in the Blanks

Poster: Comprehension Passage

Click and watch the video. This video is to be viewed by the teachers before the activity to understand how to conduct the activity during the class.

Video: Comprehension Passage

Teacher Resource Document

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