Week - 4 - DISCUSSION: Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Skills

Hello Colleagues !

I went through very interesting and useful but an small number of websites and articles on reading , writing and vocabulary and I am going to tell you what I thought of them and how I could use them with my classes. In this continuation I have chosen an article written by Larry J. Mikulecky, Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN, USA) about, 'Using Internet-Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL'. URL of this article is http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Mikulecky-OnlineChildrensLit.html. It describes how internet component could be utilized to enrich our knowledge because it could provide students with a variety of choice, variety, authenticity, and regency as well make available the students a large number of children's and young adult literature one line. Internet helps and overcomes the problems of free access to highly expensive books.

Thus, free and inexpensive Internet resources now allows teachers and students to more easily use children's and young adult literature to gain the benefits of extensive L2 reading. This will help to use, enhance and application in the EFL classroom greatly. After exploring different pages I have preferred a useful site for the Children's Digital Library, http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SearchWorld, which makes available the widest selection of materials in English for different levels. This page reveals a number of stories for children from different age groups and classified by topics. This site has illustrated children's books in many languages and more than 1000 illustrated children's books in English. Books on the site can be searched by continent, length, topic, reader age and several other useful descriptors. One of the advantages is that it is sometimes possible to find material in English about topics with which EFL readers might already be culturally familiar. 

ABCD Objectives:

C)Website is given to the class. http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SearchWorld, after exploring the "Grandpa Fish and The Radio authored by Venkatramana Gowda and illustrated by Srikrishna Kedilaya. An illustrated story of The Fish Family.

A)Student – Teachers.

B)Will be able to select children's books to use in first form and plan lessons which integrate them.

C)With a correct sequence of activities and creative exercises of more than 85 % accuracy.

DR. ASHOK KUMAR