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science teacher, Mr. Ramesh who is brought to class rooms in the trunk boxes
interested in teaching English basics to the for easy access to students and to
students. The HM trained Mr. Ramesh in inculcate reading habit in students. But
using digital content to make the teaching unfortunately the student incharges did not
learning more effective. issue books their peer defeating the main
The program run for three months objective of classroom library. That why,
and positive changes were seen in the HM transformed the classroom library to
students. Central Library in 2019. Central library is
in HM's room and it is accessible to every
They provided work sheets to the student from morning 8:00 am to 4:45 pm
children to improve their reading Skills. including short intervals and lunch break.
The primary level classes were given Library period is incorporated in school
colorful books and workbooks time table, two periods a week to every
downloaded from Google and used them class. All the books are arranged on
for phonetics to make students to read new benches as 40 in a set of Telugu, English
words. They also used animated short and Hindi books separately. Students can
video stories with sub titles to make the select any book of their choice. They sit in
students listen and understand the the HMs room / Central library and enjoy
language. They taught the students to reading, discussing and exploring.
practice frequently used words more than
100 times which they can find in their text Major Learning's and
books Achievements
Students are trained to take failure
as challenge to improve their learning. They • Around 80% of the students are
taught the students how to able to read and comprehend a
pronounce any new word using paragraph from textbooks.
phonetics that enabled students to read
poems and prose even from a higher class • Students became active in the
text books with ease. The HM encouraged classes and started reading
the students to use school dictionaries to unknown passages and
know the meanings of new words to learning new words and their
understand a paragraph. He bought 30 meanings.
English to Telugu dictionaries of different
publishers. • Students started reading
fluently with proper
For the last few years the books that comprehension
were kept in Almarahs in the Library are
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