Contents Introduction Teaching Aids as an integral component of the classroom

5.Significance of Teaching Materials
Earlier it was hard to see the interactive classroom, teaching –learning materials and the teaching-learning environment that’s why teaching became very monotonous and students had to mostly rely on the process of mugging up. The classroom teaching was dominated by the Lecture Method of teacher and there were some essential aids like chalk, duster, blackboard in the classroom. Teaching learning materials were hardly used in the classroom. The Teaching Learning Materials (TLMs) are being designed to disable the monotonous learning methods. These TLMs made a shift from Response Strengthening to Knowledge Acquisition for construction of Knowledge. In this context, a teacher provides an environment where any student can construct his knowledge by interacting with his physical and social environment. A teacher should always think about his/her students before providing TLMs. A teacher should identify the need of developing new teaching and training materials. Teachers can classify their materials according to the need and requirement of students. A lesson plan can be one of the effective materials. I would like to give an example of a Lesson plan for teaching a lesson on Pronoun. Teacher should show a chart as an aid to the students and can ask them to identify the Nouns present in the chart. Students will response with curiosity and enthusiasm and they can spot few names of Noun. Have a look at the Picture. I think students will tell the names of Nouns like Road, Bicycle, Boy, Girl, Pond, Dog, Sun, Tree, flowers, swings, clouds etc. Then, s/he can ask primary questions like: 1. Can you name girl in another way? 2. Can you name boy in another way? Students will give answers that Girl=She and Boy= He. After getting these answers, teacher can say these terms can be also termed as Pronoun and the terms which we use in place of Noun are known as pronoun. I think these kinds of involvement of students will make them enable to understand the definition and usage of Pronoun. Now teacher can elaborate the types and usage of pronouns and students will learn very easily. Games can be used as interesting materials in the classroom. Games can help to improve teaching and learning processes which improve communication and social skills in the students indirectly. I would like to mention a Grammar based questioning game. The Teacher can ask students to write separate sentences with each word which they told after observing the chart. Then, they need to be instructed to write a paragraph with the help of those sentences. After this, they can be instructed to evaluate his/her friends’ copy. During evaluation, they can be instructed to check how many students have written all the sentences. How many sentences are correct (as per their evaluation)? How many of them have used all the sentences to write a paragraph? How many of them have used these sentences to attain coherence? All the students will be involved in writing and evaluation which develops the learning process of students. Another example can be better implemented in the class as a material to enhance the writing skills of the students. A teacher can ask the students, “Let’s assume that you live in a room in college which you share with another student. However,