NAME: Amyra Nagpal CLASS: II-C DATE: December 2020

Action Plan

Objective: Strengthening reading, writing and comprehension skills.

✓ Converse in English and Hindi both.

✓ IMP: Reading grade level stories in English and Hindi from Story Weaver and RAZ-KIDS
everyday for 30 minutes.

✓ Reading appropriate level text and answering comprehension questions (verbal and written).
You may opt for texts with some comprehension questions at the end or may choose to
make their own questions based on the text. Eg:
• Name the characters in the story.
• Who is your favourite character and why?
• What is the main idea/ moral of the story? And many more.

➢ While reading/ writing break a word phonetically when needs help (Show how two
words come together to make a new word. Eg: Story- Sto + ry)

➢ List the sight words from the text as well some words used in the day to day life and practice
verbally as well as in writing from time to time. This has to be a regular practice and can be
taken up in the form of a quiz/ play which intrigues the child to perform better.

➢ Time bound activities to enhance speed and accomplish the given task within a given time.

➢ Express thoughts in writing. Strategies for content development:

• Choose a topic.
• Ask the child to verbally share his/ her thoughts about the same, emphasizing on
speaking in complete sentences.
• Help him/ her pen down the main points or thoughts and give a proper sequence or
structure to it.
• Later have him/ her put them in sentences concentrating on beginning, middle and
end of a writing piece.
• Now have the child read so as to understand it as a single piece of writing with all the
necessary information in it.
 • Encourage the child to add additional information in the next draft.
• Have the child re-check their work so as to have followed a proper format and all
conventions while writing (the checklist and writing conventions have been given
below).
➢ Encourage the child to make his/ her own short stories and write them down which may
include a life event. Eg: How did I spend my evening/ My new friend/ My favourite food etc.

➢ The child may express through drawing. He/ she can draw and then encourage him/ her to
write a few lines about it. Later, the child can be introduced to reading books and writing
can be taken forward from there.

➢ Play memory games with picture and word cards that children have to match or even a
game of Scrabble. You can also buy games designed for language development such as
Honey Bee Tree, Barnyard Bingo etc. Internet too is a good source to explore all such
games.

HANDWRITING:

• Make Practicing Fun: Offer your child a special pencil or a rainbow of coloured ones. Don't
just give him/her words to copy. Try simple word puzzles, a game of hangman, or ask her
to brainstorm lists around a theme to give writing practice a purpose.
• Encourage Drawing and Puzzle Games: In order to develop the physical requirements of
writing — holding a pencil correctly, posture, control, dexterity, coordination — the more
time your child spends manipulating objects, the better. Even using silverware can help
him develop his fine-motor skills.
• Pinpoint the Problem: Common handwriting problems lie in four main areas: letter formation,
sizing, spaces between words, and line-alignment. Focus your child's practice on the letters
or concepts that challenge her and make sure he/she's using two hands to control the
paper.
• The Right Tools: If your child's struggling with a regular pencil, try a smaller or shorter, kid-
sized one. Ensure he/she has a good eraser handy so he's not afraid of making mistakes.

Fine motor
Activities to strengthen the pincer grip .
 Tearing and pasting –tell the child to tear small pieces of paper and roll .he can create an image
or figure using the tearing and pasting.Make sure he is tearing the paper really small.
 Working with clay will help him strengthen his finger muscles
 Working with aluminium file will also help in strengthening the finger muscles.
 Drawing between the lines of the given picture should continue
 Handwriting practice with focus on letter formation.
  Play with toys that need to be squeezed, pushed together, or pulled apart will help strengthen
the tiny muscles in the hand that are needed for more sophisticated skills later on. Think about
bath toys that squirt water, spray bottles, pop beads, large Duplo or Mega Blocks, and Velcro
fasteners as great “tools” to help your child develop these muscles and the ability to
coordinate them.

For pincer grip -

Some helpful tips….

Use books, videos, computers, visual aids, and flashcards.

Use drawings and illustrations for comprehension
Study with other students. Talk things through.
Use word associations and verbal repetition to memorize.
Study with music on in the background (kinesthetic learners)
Make reading fun for children every day and not just a task!

Comprehension strategies-

1) Making connections-making personal connections-

three types-
text to self-child should connect the story to his personal experiences
text to text –connect it with the story read previously
text to world –connect it to some incidents aro
2) Questioning-asking questions
3) Visualizing -creating mental images that makes the reading three dimensional
4) Inferring-reading between the lines using
 Contextual clues,picture clues etc
 Making predictions-p
 Drawing conclusions
 Finding meaning of unknown words
5) Determining importance-purpose for reading -needs to distinguish between fiction and non fiction
important to unimportant information .

Checklist Writing Conventions

 Have I given a title to my  Always end your sentence
work? with a full stop.

 Does it have capital letters  Start a new sentence with a

and full stops at the right capital letter.
place?

 Is there one finger spacing  Leave one finger gap

between each word? between your words.

 Does it have a proper  Do not mix capital and small

beginning, middle and end? letters.

 Have I completed my task in  Letters should sit on the line

time assigned? and should have a uniform
shape and size.