NEW GRAMMAR TREK
Funshiksha's co-founders Ms Meeta Mohanty & Jitender Kumaria have also published books for K-12 segment which are widely used across ICSE, CBSE & State Boards.
Grammar Trek is a well-researched series based on the principles highlighted in the National Education Policy. The rationale behind developing the series is to simplify grammar teaching and integrate play way techniques while teaching grammar rules. Drawing from the best of both structuralism and constructivism, the series follows an eclectic approach to teaching of grammar and paves way for learning. Key highlights of the grammar course are given below:
Grammar Trek for classes 1-8. Please find below some of the important highlights of the course and how it provides an edge to a learner and a teacher.
1. Treatment of Language as a Whole: One of the biggest drawbacks in English Language Teaching in India is treating language in a compartmentalized way: fragmentation of language and teaching the parts-grammar, syntax separately devoid of any context. This fragmentation leads to confusion in the minds of the learners who are non native speakers of English language. Thus one of the rationales of Grammar Trek is to provide scope for integration of skills woven into contexts. Thus the activities --Let's Begin and Fun Time are tasks that combine other language skills like listening, speaking, reading, writing, dictionary referencing, vocabulary /word skills while learning grammatical concepts.
2. Contextualization: NCF' 2005 and National Policy on Education 2020 strongly suggest contextualization, a variety of contemporary themes have been woven in the grammar curriculum that provides learners an opportunity to know about their natural, social and emotional environment. Themes like odd-even formula, bad air quality index, bike path implementation, rock garden, rise of selfie deaths, digitalization, protecting the monuments, girl child etc have been integrated in the curriculum.
A conscious and deliberate attempt has been made to make learners aware about their surroundings - know about the country and the world and be sensitive to social issues. Even themes like child safety (good and bad touch), child labour finds its way through the stories and contexts woven in the text.
3. Gradation: Grammar Trek envisages to make grammar teaching easy for learners, thus emphasis at every stage has been to revoke an oral tradition and integrate listening and speaking tasks. Games like snakes and ladders, dice games, tambola have been customized as grammar games. Children enjoy rolling a dice and & learning about grammatical concepts. All kinds of tasks for addressing differentiation in the classrooms have been integrated and mapped in 8 key stages forming a spiral curriculum.
