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What is Instructional Materials

1. Instructional materials refer to the human and non-human materials and facilities
that can be used to ease, encourage, improved and promote teaching and learning
activities. They are whatever materials used in the process of instruction. They are a
broad range of resource which can be used to facilitate effective instruction. They
indicate a systematic way of designing, carrying out and employing the total process
of learning and communication and employing human and non-human resources to
bring out a more meaningful and effective instruction. They are human and non-
human material that a teacher uses to pass information to the learner in his/her
class. Learn more in: Relevance of the Use of Instructional Materials in Teaching and
Pedagogical Delivery: An Overview
2. Instructional materials are defined as resources that organize and support
instruction, such as textbooks, tasks, and supplementary resources (adapted from
Remillard & Heck, 2014 ). Learn more in: Transforming Preservice Mathematics
Teacher Knowledge for and with the Enacted Curriculum: The Case of Digital
Instructional Materials

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basic principles in materials development of instructional materials

Principles of Materials Development

1 Make sure that the materials contain a lot of spoken and written texts which provide
extensive experience of language being used in order to achieve outcomes in a variety
of text types and genres in relation to topics, themes, events, locations etc likely to be
meaningful to the target learners.

2 Make sure that the language the learners are exposed to is authentic in the sense that
it represents how the language is typically used. If the language is inauthentic because
it has been written or reduced to exemplify a particular language feature then the
learners will not acquire the ability to use the language typically or effectively. Much
has been written on the issue of authenticity and some experts consider that it is useful
to focus attention on a feature of a language by removing distracting difficulties and
complexities from sample texts. My position is that such contrived focus might be of
some value as an additional aid to help the learner to focus on salient features but that
prior and subsequent exposure to those features in authentic use is essential.

3 Make sure that the language input is contextualised. Language use is determined
and interpreted in relation to its context of use. De-contextualised examples do not
contain enough information about the user, the addressee(s), the relationships between
the interactants, the setting, the intentions or the outcomes for them to be of value to
the language learner. I can, for example, think of at least three different interpretations
of, “Give him the keys. Let him drive it.” But I do not know what it really means nor
why the speaker has used the imperative until I know who is saying it, who they are
saying it to, what the relationship between them is, where they are, what has happened
before and what the objectives of the conversation are. Only extended samples of
language in contextualised use can provide learners with the ‘information’ they need
to develop awareness of how the target language is actually used.

4 Make sure that the learners are exposed to sufficient samples of language in
authentic use to provide natural re-cycling of language items and features which
might be useful for the learners to acquire.

http://www.iltec.pt/pdf/Principles%20and%20Procedures%20of%20Materials
%20Development%20Paper.pdf

Importance Of Instructional Materials In Teaching

An Instructional material is a device developed or acquired to assist or facilitate

teachers in transmitting, organized knowledge, skills and attitude to the learners
within an instructional situation. It is an indispensable tool in the teaching and
learning process. Learners learned best if teachers present materials for active
learning. Studies has shown that inadequate use or lack of instructional materials
negates the objective of teaching. Moreover, it is also observed that participation of
learners and their performances in classroom is affected, if it does not totally depend,
on the use of instructional materials

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5 Benefits Of Using Instructional Materials

The best way to help a student learn faster with limited time is to use instructional
material, many of our teachers today don’t actually realize that the best way to make a
child learn, is by including instructional material in the Regular classroom teaching
and learning.
Instructional material can be Electronic material and can as well be non electronic
material, teacher should learn to use the power of electronic instructional material
because it as prove to be more powerful than any other instructional material, Do you
know Model is an instructional material ? Model can also be used to teach a lot of
concept in biology because most of the items are real life Animals that cannot be
gotten, for example using A model of Lion to teach Wild Animals.
Today, I will be showing you five (5) Benefits Of Using Instructional Materials 
1.It helps student Retain information easily.
2.It makes learning real.
3.For Present and Future References.
4.It brings real life experience to classroom Situation.
5.It makes learning fun.

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