Deshmukh, Nabanita
(2014)
Classroom activities
Activity 1: big to small Activity 2: story bag.
Language and Language Teaching, 3 (2).
pp. 57-58.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
To make small words using letters from a larger
word. To help children make up stories, thereby
improving their oral skills.
Level Level
6-8 years 8-10 years
Materials Materials
Blackboard, chalk, notebooks and pens A small bag that can be fastened containing
small objects such as erasers, pencils, pens,
sharpeners, coins, toffees, etc.
Procedure
•
Write a long word such as
‘hippopotamus’on the board, and ask the
students to write down as many smaller
words as they can using the letters of the
long word.
• Fix a time limit for the exercise.
• A few examples of words written by
children could be: hip, pot, top, must, pop,
mat, etc.
• Once the time is our, ask the children to
read out the words they have written and
then explain their meanings.
•
•
If the meaning of a word is not clear, help
children derive it by writing a sentence
on the board in which the contextual
meaning of the word is clear, e.g..I have
no garden but my plants grow in pots
on my terrace.
Procedure
• Narrate a story of your choice to the
children.
• Hold the bag containing the objects in your
hands and approach the students. Ask the
first six children in a row to close their
eyes and pick up any one object from the
bag.
• Pick up an object yourself.
• If you have picked up a pencil, start a
new story about the pencil, e.g. “Once
there lived a tall pencil with a black and
red coat. She lived with her friends in a
trendy pencil box....”
• Let the child sitting next to you continue
the story by introducing the object he/she
has picked up. If the child has picked up
a sharpener, for example,he/she could
say, “One day, the pencil saw a wicked
sharpener with a sharp, shiny blade who
wanted to cut off her head. The pencil
got scared and ran away followed by the
scary sharpener into....”
• The other students have to continue the
study by introducing the objects that they
have picked-up from the bag.
Ask the children to consult a dictionary
to understand the meanings of the words
that they have written.
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