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School readiness programme guidelines 2014

Objectives:

School Readiness: to ensure that every child seeking admission into class I & II is psychologically, Physically and sociologically ready to receive instruction in a child friendly environment.
Class Readiness: “to ensure that children acquire the stated academic standards to continue in the present class”.




Outcomes:

Every child should have acquired B or A grade in the Mother tongue (Telugu & Urdu) and mathematics.
Every child should be able to read and write in the Mother tongue & do the mathematics correctly.
Every child should be able to read and write sentences correctly in the mother tongue and should have acquired creative skills and language skills as per the class specific academic standards.
Every child should be able to do the class relevant fundamental process in mathematics and should have acquired the stated skills in mathematics as per the academic standards.

Target Group: Children who are admitted in classes I to VIII Mother tongue
     and Mathematics. 

Time Line: June 16th to July 31st 2014.

Resource Material:

Class Readiness and School Readiness Modules supplied in Primary and Upper Primary Levels, Workbooks meant for Summer Camps for children of classes I & II and III, IV & V, Sneha bala cards and Text books and any other relevant material suitable to the levels of the children.

Special instructions:
Out of a total of 48 periods at the Primary level, 20 periods should exclusively be meant for Mother Tongue & Mathematics only and the remaining hours for the teaching of the other subjects.
Daily Home work should be given and it should be corrected.
Maintain the children’s performance register based on the earlier summative 3 test grading.

Record the progress of the child level-wise i.e., in Telugu.

Level I: Identification, pronunciation and recognition of the alphabet.
Level II: Writing the alphabet.
Level III: Identification, Recognition and Pronunciation of language items.
Level IV: Reading and Writing of the language items.
Level V: Reading and Writing of the words in the Mother Tongue.
Level VI: Reading and Writing sentences (simple words and simple sentences)
Level VII: Perfection in the language skills.

Record the progress of the child level-wise i.e., in Mathematics.

Level I: Identification, pronunciation and recognition of the Numbers.
Level II: Writing the Numbers.
Level III: To be able to do the two digits subtractions and additions.
Level IV: To be able to do the two digits multiplications according to the class standards.
Level V: To be able to do the two digits divisions according to the class standards.
Level VI: To be able to grasp the tables according to the class standards.
Role of Teacher:

Every teacher has to maintain child performance register as per the annexure.
To identify the children those who are lagging behind the basics in Mother tongue and Mathematics.
To maintain the performance register.
To prepare the activities and to utilize low cost and no cost TLM.
To ensure that every child acquires the stated academic standards in Mother tongue and in Mathematics before 30th July 2014.
However, no child should remain in C grade after 30th July 2014.