ICT student textbook/Help build your vocabulary with Kanagram

Jumbling the word
In this activity, you will play 'jumbled' word game, and identify meaningful words from a jumble of the letters. You will also create simple word lists for a category of words.

Objectives

1. Playing with the word lists to test your and your friends' vocabulary
2. Build new vocabularies with the tool in English and in Telugu

What prior skills are assumed

1. Handling ICT equipment

What resources do you need

1. Working computer lab with projector
2. Computers installed with Ubuntu Operating System
3. Computer lab with projection equipment
4. Handout for Ubuntu
5. Handout for LibreOffice Writer
6. Handout for Kanagram

What digital skills will you learn

1. Navigating an educational software application
2. Creating vocabulary lists for different word categories in English and Telugu

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

1. Your teacher will show how to use Kanagram and how to guess the right word from the jumble
2. She will demonstrate how you can create a vocabulary list for a word category and provide the 'hint' for each word

Student Activities

1. You can work with Kanagram to check your vocabulary for a given item collection
2. You can build a vocabulary list for Telangana Festivals, water bodies, vegetables, flowers, districts, mandals etc.
3. You can build a vocabulary list for the poem In the Bazaars of Hyderabad.
4. You can build a vocabulary list for a poem in Telugu

Portfolio

1. Vocabulary lists created by you (you can create and save this in a text document, in a tabular format, with columns as follows:
   1. Word category (e.g. District names)
   2. Correct word (e.g. Medak)
   3. Jumbled word (e.g. dekam)
   4. Hint (Gulshanabad)