SUITABLE MATERIAL FOR CHILDREN
Teaching materials is not merely text book containing explanation on a certain language items and then followed by some exercises to check whether pupil rally get the point being explained on not.
1. Printed material is also called written materials. Text books or students’ worksheets are the example of printed material. By using this material the teacher is easy to get the material, almost all of school use this material, but this material is lack of creativity, picture and improvement. So if the teacher is not creative it will make the children feel bore
2. Recorded materials are mainly used to improve listening skills of pupil. Recorded materials give spoken input to the pupils to comprehend English utterances. It helps them to communicate orally as well. This material gives the students opportunity to listen English utterances by native speaker; they can imagine that they are listening a native speaker. But this material is expensive and we need more media
3. Computer Based Material
This is the new development of material. In this era, everything uses computer. To make the material easy to understand, a teacher can improve their creativity. A teacher can make the lesson more interesting. But it needs specific competency and ability to use this material
There are some English skills given to the children, like speaking, listening, reading and writing. A teacher does not give them separately because the children do not need them one by one; in their mind they are studying English, not studying listening, speaking etc. So when we are teaching English to children, we have to integrate the skills.
In the process of teaching and learning, a teacher sometimes meets the material offered by some publisher is too easy or too difficult. What is a teacher going to do with this problem?
There are some tips to solve this problem:
a. Too Easy Material
1. modify the question
2. modify the activity
3. make it deeper and wider
4. practice it
5. involving more skills
6. beyond the topic
b. Too difficult
1. modify the question
2. modify the activity
3. simplify
4. use more media
5. take some part and the other part will be next meeting