ABC+: Advancing Basic Education in the Philippines

MODULE 4
ABC+ EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT-LEARNING ACTION CELL SERIES

Strategies in Language Learning and Use of Supplementary Reading Materials

Transition (SRMs)

• Oral Language • Matching Learners to Texts

• Phonological Awareness and Bridging • Dialogic Reading

• Writing and Composing • Monitoring Comprehension

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4
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5
SESSION 1

5 FINGER RULE
 Share and Debrief

What are you

grateful
for today?

GRATITUDE JAR

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TEACHING STRATEGY REFLECTION
IN GROUPS

I used the following I felt

teaching strategy to address
these learning competencies in
my lessons (s)
I noticed
I checked for pupil
understanding in the following
ways I think
 Learn and Apply

ACTIVITY

Paired and Group

Discussions
 In Pairs

How do you help learners find books

01 at their independent reading level?
What challenges do you have in
02 matching learners to texts? What do you
do to solve these challenges?

What suggestions or tips would you give

03 parents to help their children find
appropriate books for reading at home?

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 Whole group discussion

What worked
What has not worked
Possible solution

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 Learner’s Reading Level

The child can read 95% or more of the

Independent Level text accurately (relatively easy and
can do alone)

The child can read between 90-95%

Instruction Level of the text accurately (challenging
but manageable)

The child can read less than 90% of

Frustration Level the text accurately (difficult)
 Five Finger Rule
2 3
4
1

01 What is the 5-finger rule?

5

02 What are the 3 steps for

using the 5-finger rule?

03 What should a learner

do if they have 5
fingers up at the end
of the page?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f987Qq7mOg4

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 Practice: In small groups

1. Assign a teacher, an observer and

learners
2. Choose a decodable reader or
SRM for their grade level
3. Take turns doing the
different roles
4. Practice and Review
using the checklist

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 Whole group discussion

How can you

connect matching
texts to readers to the
lesson objectives and
essential
competencies, and
ways to assess
learners?

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Reflection and Action
 Reflection
Reflection
In Groups:
● For each strategy, as a group, select one or two
actions that you believe will have the greatest
impact on your students’ learning.
● Discuss the following: What data will you use
to determine whether implementing the
strategies resulted in learner achievement of
the lesson objectives and essential
competencies?

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 Action
Action Plan
Plan

● Develop a Plan for how to

implement the strategy at
home or in the classroom
● Develop Assessments for
assessing the strategy
● Select a strategy for review
and practice in the next
session

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 SESSION 2

Using the
Leveling
Framework
 Share and Debrief

Look around you. Notice five things that you can see.

Pay attention to your body. Notice 4 things that are

touching you or you are feeling.

Keep your eyes closed and breathe in deeply. Notice

three things you can smell.

Close your eyes and listen carefully. Identify two

things that you can hear.

Focus on your mouth. Notice one thing you can taste.

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TEACHING STRATEGY REFLECTION
IN GROUPS

I used the following I felt

teaching strategy to address
these learning competencies in
my lessons (s)
I noticed
I checked for pupil
understanding in the following
ways I think
 Learn and Apply

ACTIVITY 1
Paired and Group Discussions

ACTIVITY 2

Trigger Video
 In Pairs
1. The DepEd MTB-MLE guidance and
DepEd Order 21. s. 2019 identifies the
following SRMs as appropriate for
kindergarten to grade 3: big books
(read-aloud), small books (decodable Ang Aming Bahay
and levelled readers), listening stories,
wordless picture books, and big
pictures. Have you used them in your
classroom?
2. How do you help learners find the right
books for them to read? How can using
leveled readers help?
3. How can levelled readers be used for
Halina’t Lumipad
reading at home?
(Tagalog)

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 Whole group discussion

What worked
What has not worked
Possible solution

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 Trigger Video

Matching Learners to Texts

1. Why is it important to match texts to a
child’s reading level?
2. What can a child do with a ‘just right’ book?
3. How do you know if a book is ‘just right’?
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ABC+ Levelling Framework
 Practice: In small groups

1. Have a set of SRMs

(digital or physical)
2. Use the framework
to determine the
level of the SRMs
3. Discuss which
learners are the
SRMS best suited
for

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Reflection and Action
 Reflection
Reflection
In Groups:
● As a group, select one or two actions that you
believe will have the greatest impact on your
students’ learning.
● Discuss the following: What data will you use
to determine whether implementing the
strategies resulted in learner achievement of
the lesson objectives and essential
competencies?

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 Action
Action Plan
Plan

● Develop a Plan for how to

implement the strategy at
home or in the classroom
● Develop Assessments for
assessing the strategy
● Select a strategy for review
and practice in the next
session

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 PHOTO: KAYE SUCGANG FOR USAID BASA PILIPINAS
Salamat!
ABC+: Advancing Basic Education in the Philippines