The document summarizes steps taken by students in Design for Change Worli Sea Face English Municipal School III C to help other students learn to read and write English. They identified that many children couldn't read or write English well. They decided to help students in their own school. They came up with options like making teaching aids or teaching grade 1 students phonics. They split up, with half the class making flashcards and the other half teaching phonics to grade 1 students for 10 days. They created 39 flashcards with 78 words to help teachers teach vocabulary affordably.

1. Design for Change Worli Sea Face English Municipal School III C 2010

2. Step 1 : Feel We thought about a lot of problems, the one that troubled us was that so many children who go to school cannot read and write in english. Before we ventured out to help other people, we decided to help the children in our school who couldn’t read or write as well as us

3. Step 2 : Imagine We thought about why our class reads better than other classes. We came to a conclusion that it was because of the phonics, sight words that we had learnt and the word wall in our class We thought how could we as grade 3 students help other classes in our school

4. Various options were discussed Teach the whole school Buy good teaching aids Help the teachers Teach grade 1 students Make teaching aids We debated, half the class wanted to make teaching aids and the other half wanted to teach the grade 1 students. So we decided half the class would teach and the other half would make teaching aids.

5. Step 3 : Do Everyone signed up either to make flash cards to help the teachers teach OR Go and teach the grade 1 students phonics

6. - We went to the grade 1 classrooms (2 classes = 80 students) for 10 days and taught them phonics -We first taught them the song and then in groups of 2-3 taught them the initial phonic sounds

7. We decided to make flash cards so that it would be easy for teachers to teach english vocabulary words. Also buying flash cards is expensive. We practiced our drawing skills before finalising the flash cards.

10. We inspired the other grade III class (III D) to make a word wall for their class.

11. Our Final Product – 39 flash cards with 78 words

12. Handing it over to the school