Principles/Guidelines for planning Enrichment & Remedial

Principles/Guidelines for RemedialIdentify StudentsDetermine types of activityEffect of mistakes on understandingFeelings of learnersLearners learning styleVarieties of strategy

General Principles for RemedialActivitiesIdentify The teacher needs to identify the students who need remedial work. Firstly, identify the students from their learning behaviour in class, for example, their response throughout the lesson especially the response to the reading activities and work assigned throughout the lesson. If they consistently show lack of understanding in their reading then they should be identified for remedial work.

Determining Activity TypeOne of the steps is to check the frequency of mistakes the student makes throughout the lesson. Some mistakes are found very often in the learners reading. Others are rarely found. This can determine the type of remedial work suitable for the student concerned. The teacher should carefully study each mistake chosen, try to find the reasons why the learners make the mistake, and look at ways for re-teaching or correcting, using new techniques and procedures and a new way of looking at and explaining the problem. For example, a pupil always mispronounced /b/ as /d/. Hence, the teacher need to provide activity that teach how to differentiate these two alphabets.Effect of MistakesSome mistakes are found frequently in a learners work but they do not make it difficult for anyone to understand what the learner is trying to say. Mistakes with a and the, plurals, agreement, and many pronunciation mistakes are like this. Other mistakes, like the use of stress, vocabulary, and certain sentence patterns, make it very difficult for someone to understand what the learner is trying to say. These kinds of mistakes need to be addressed.This is more to Reading Aloud.

Learners FeelingsIf the learners are not really worried by the mistakes or they see no value in correcting them, remedial work will probably be unsuccessful. The learners should be able to see that it is possible to make great improvement and that they are really learning something useful. Teacher plays important role to convince the learners that reading is an important part of living and they need to master it.Remedial work should not be just a reminder of the learners past failures instead it should enable learners to see it as a way of getting the informed correction that they do not get outside the class.

6When?The activities can be carried out when the class is doing assigned work and the teacher can give the students who need remedial work more attention and further teaching.Outside the classroom when time is much needed