Beginning Reading
Beginning Reading
Reading
AGREE or DISAGREE on each statement to
show how you feel
1. The story is used solely to develop the lasting love for
reading and critical thinking skills among children.
2. The teacher should focus on asking literal questions
only.
3. Motive question taps the experiences of the children.
4.Voice is the only tool of an effective story reader.
5. In unlocking of difficulties, only the key words are
unlocked.
6.After the reading activity, the children are asked to
answer the motive question.
7. To start the reading activity, it is essential for the teacher
to know and like the story itself.
8.Engagement activity is a series of learning tasks that are
given before taking up literature.
9. Engagement activity gives students a chance to work
together, discuss, deliberate, present their work and
experience decision-making opportunities.
10. Reading integrates values.
The four-pronged approach is a literature-
based approach to reading and language
learning. This holistic approach developed
skills and attitudes that enhance
independent reading behavior.
witch
Knowledge Chart
“Witch”
K W L
Prediction Chart
Guess/Prediction What Actually Happened
Story Reading
Getting Started…
• Know and like your story
• * choose your story
• * study your story
• * practice
• Know and like your audience
• * age
• * gender
• * type of community they came from
• * other details
Tools of an effective story reader:
A.Voice
* Use good English or Filipino.
* Speak loud enough to be heard easily.
* Dialogues should make use of different voices for different
characters.
* Show expression in voice by changing pitch and tempo.
B. Body Language
* Facial expression
* Minimal gestures
DEVELOPING CRITICAL AND CREATIVE
THINKING (CT)
POST READING
What is an engagement activity?
EA is a series of learning tasks that are given to the
students after taking up literature while they are
engrossed in the text and are experiencing the essential
elements of the story (main idea, setting, problem to be
solved, main events, how the problem is solved and what
the story is about).
Why do we give EA?
To understand the story better
View story from different angles
Help promote language learning
Strengthen reading-writing connection; promotes
literacy
Encourage interactive learning; hands-on
experience of the story
Encourage students to respond to literature
Contd.
B.Teaching/Modeling
* Help the children notice the structure of the sentences
or words presented. Draw out from the students the
rules or generalization about the target structure.
Contd.
C. Guided Practice
• * Use scaffolding as a class activity to master the structure
taught.
D. Application
• * Use the target structure in everyday language by presenting
them in a play or games.
E. Independent Practice
* Seatwork/Homework
GRAMMAR LESSONS
Mm Ss Ll Ff Tt Hh Cc(k)
Rr Nn Bb Gg Pp Dd Jj
Ww Vv Zz Yy
* short e as in pen
* short a as in bat
* short i as in pin
* short o as in top
* short u as in sun
2. Consonant digraphs
ch as in chin, catch
sh as in ship, fish
3. Consonant Blends
• Initial blends
• * cl as in class
• * cr as in crab
• * sw as in swim
Final blends
* nt as in went
* st as in nest
* lt as in belt
* ft as in raft
* mp as in jump
4. LongVowel words
• long a as in bake
• long i as in hide
• long o as in nose
• long u as in tube
5.Vowel Diphthongs
oi as in oil
• oy as in toy
• au as in taught
• aw as in saw
• ou as in out
• ow as in how
Vowel Digraphs
* oa as in goat
* ee as in sheep
* ea as in beat
* ai as in pail
* ay as in bay
Differentiated Work Activities in Teaching
Word Attack Skills
Time Basic Ave. Fast
Frame Group Group Group
10 mins. Oral Work Seatwork Seatwork