My first encounter with WORD WALL

And then...

I will now trace my Action Research journey.

https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aqa0uo7EZpQJjlovvKL8lsqshtXS

My question for Action Research was “Reading for pleasure is an important skill. Students and youngsters now-a-days just don’t have the inclination and interest for this simple pleasure. Almost all their language woes will be sorted once they get into the habit of reading especially reading for pleasure. So how to make my students take interest in reading?”

I started taking them to the school library and let them read ‘any’ book that interested them. This happened for about 4 weeks. But I couldn’t progress past teeny magazines with colourful pictures. I understood that they were plain ‘not’ interested in this supposed to be intellectual activity.

Meanwhile, I started a facebook page "Reading for pleasure’. 

https://www.facebook.com/Reading-for-pleasure-163564200835939/?modal=composer

I diligently posted pictures, thoughts and lists of books to be read. But with my students, it was as if I had hit a brick wall.

After much pondering, I thought of problems faced by my students. As I discussed this with teachers of other subjects of the class, I understood that they have a problem of comprehending words. Vocabulary was their problem. So now I changed route and started my own research on how to tackle with this problem – the problem students face because of difficulty in understanding words and to use them.

Now I reframed my Action Research question to “there is a gap between words and their meaning. What can I do to decrease this gap?”

I put to use my close friendship with the ‘net’, to find out ways to decrease the word-meaning gap.

Lo!Voila! I hit pay dirt with WORD WALL!!!!

All about my encounter with this gold mine in the next post...