CoMeL Kit stands for Colour Memory Learning Kit. It’s a simple and attractive  innovation kit to help pupils to write simple present tense sentences. This innovation kit helps pupils to enhance and learn through this kit. It is an effective and attractive learning tool that enable pupils to write simple sentences to grab the ability in writing and to create  mood in pupils to learn in make writing lesson is fun to learn. 

I choose primary colours such as blue, red and yellow. These colours attract pupils and have meaning to relate  words in making simple present tense sentence that represent subject, verb and object. Subject, verb and object are the basic structure in making simple sentences. Pupils loves colours and these three basic colours are really play main roles when it comes to memory.

Why colours? Blue, red and yellow. Blue is stability and intelligent so used for subject. Red is energy and power shows the action represent verb and yellow means happy and cheerful as used for thing or gift. Colours really help pupils to understand and learn basic sentence pattern. It helps pupils to remember and write sentences independently. So the colours arranged in alphabetical order; Blue – Red – Yellow so that it will be easy to recognise the colours order and relate with subject, verb and object in simple present tense sentence.

Why need a kit ?  After few lessons of writing, I analized the problems and the relationship of the problem found in a group of pupils that unable to use subject, verb and object words in correct order of sentence structure. These weak pupils jumbled up or mixed up the words – subject, verb and object that should be in order for a meaningful sentence. They wrote meaningless sentences. Some of the pupils not interested when it comes to writing lesson because they feel that writing is a boring lesson. To make them interested and engaged in writing this innovation kit helps pupils to understand and remember the colours and relate with the basic sentence structure.

May be we will think that memorizing colours will make them unable to understand the sentence structure and just arrange according to the colours. Actually no. They were given explanation and simple identifying drilling activities on words list so they really understand subject, verb and object words in a simple sentence before they use kit to make simple sentences. I choose Model Kurt Lewin (Bartunek, et al. 2015). I use this method that  has 4 steps – identifying the main problem – appropriate planning – implementation and observation – reflection. This model is easy and helpful in carry out the activity to help pupils to understand  the basic skills using this colour memory learning kit.

How it works? This innovation kit is made from unwanted or waste egg-tray, ice-cream sticks and colour papers. It is a very low cost kit.  After drilling activity on identifying the subject, verb and object words list, pupils use the CoMeL kit to arrange the words correctly in the slots based on pictures and guide words. Pupils actively took part and enjoyed the activity because they wanted to try hands-on activity for themselves because most of the writing lessons are very plain and using mind-map process in writing the sentences or writing essay.  It is used as an extra teaching and learning kit to enrich and sustain the interest in writing. It is also a helpful innovation kit to apply to the weak and slow  learners as a remedial activity. Through this kit pupils able to attain knowledge and improve writing level independently.

This kit used and implemented in English lessons and suggested to apply to weak pupils in Bahasa Melayu and Tamil language subjects too. Both panel heads very impressed and tried and used in Bahasa Melayu lesson and Tamil language lesson especially in writing skill.

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Written by:  Teacher Yesumarial  A/P Joseph  from SJKT Ladang Chemor , Perak.