Language Resources

What are these resources?

The learning loss in the area of language could be due to a variety of reasons including:

• loss of language competencies acquired due to lack of opportunities to practice the skill
• and delays in the acquisition of new skills due to lack of inputs
• emotional and psychological stresses in the child's life due to the pandemic

The teacher needs to have resources that are able to support the children in language acquisition at the levels they are - ranging from building/ reinforcing early language skills to grade-appropriate reading materials. These are not meant to be supplementary resources for the textbook, rather a set of resources for teachers to address the language learning needs of the children, at the level they are. The resources will focus on building the LSRW skills and will be based both a phonetic approach to language learning as well a whole language approach. This approach can be used both for first language learning and English - though for English (or any other second language) there needs to be a much longer period of instructional activities for listening. The resources are broadly structured along the LSRW competencies, however, their use in classrooms is expected to be seamless.

Teacher Handbooks

Kannada Foundational Literacy Manual 1: Gubbachi

Kannada Foundational Literacy Manual 2: Gubbachi

Scope of resources

Listening and speaking

https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Foundational_literacy

https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Purposeful_commnication_and_writing

Writing

Objectives

1. Creating and modeling communication opportunities,focusing on language production
2. Become familiar with grammar and rules of written communication
3. Comfort with the script

Activities and resources

1. Expressing their understanding of a story (after listening) through pictures and a combination of pictures and words
2. Expressing their understanding of a reading material through pictures and a combination of pictures and words