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Name: Shella A. Dante Year & Course: Beed-3 Code: 20188 (Content and Pedagogy For Mother Tongue Instructor: Mrs - Nicefora Rosario
Name: Shella A. Dante Year & Course: Beed-3 Code: 20188 (Content and Pedagogy For Mother Tongue Instructor: Mrs - Nicefora Rosario
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
I. ACTIVATE
When you teach the language macro skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and
viewing, you are responsible in helping the learners build the competences (and confidence)
in using these macro skills meaningfully and accurately. This is called as a “balanced
teaching method”.
___TA___1. A student is shown a sequence of pictures and she will be asked to tell the
story.
___TA___2. A student draws a picture of her favorite place and she tells the class about
it.
II. ANALYZE
Malone (2001) compared the three teaching methods that are commonly used in teaching
language in the early years: the {art-to-Whole, the Whole-to-Part, and the Balanced Methods.
Part-to-Whole is a teaching method in which instruction begins with the most basic unit of
language learning and works up to more complex aspects of language learning. More attention
is given to skill-development through drills, and less attention is given to constructing meaning
through language. For example, the teacher provides premium in the practice of forming
letters, spelling words, and copying text.
On the other hand, the Whole-to-Part teaching method emphasizes the importance of the
learners’ understanding of the context in which the language is used. This teaching method
emphasizes the importance of meaning, construction in the learners’ use of his or her language.
The use of Big Book activity is to make the learners understand the story with the aid of the big
Book.
Balanced Method is the combination of the two methods described above. Below are selected
instructional activities that are believed to be examples of the use of the balanced method. Try
to identify the activity that is being described in nos. 1 to 3. Use the list shown below.
1 Teachers select a big book that is slightly above 1. Ensure text is displayed in
the level of most students in the class. Teachers front of students so they can
and students read out loud together. Often, the see the enlarged font and
text contains rhyming words or patterns that are photographs. Introduce text.
predictable for student to read with the teacher. This text is about two children
The teacher can cover up certain parts of the who share some fruit. While I
text (a letter, a word, or a phrase) to have read, see if you can name and
remember all the different
Students predict what makes sense based on the
types of fruit they share and
skill being covered.
eat, use a pointer to track the
words so students can see
early reading behaviours such
as left to right, return sweep,
top to bottom, word by word
matching. As the text is read,
model phrasing and fluency,
using the natural rhythm of
the text to assist.
2. The students will read the same book 2. Book or picture walks are
appropriate to their reading level. The teacher shared reading activities that
introduces the book, pints out vocabulary words are done prior to reading new
and allows the students to do a picture walk. or unfamiliar text and involve
Then, students will have to read the book on the teacher “walking” through
their own, at their own pace while the teacher the text along with students.
prepared a comprehension check afterwards. During this time, text and
graphic features are identified
and discussed. Picture walks
involve pointing out
photographs or illustrations in
a story as a way to preview or
introduce it prior to reading.
Book walks involve studying
the front and back covers,
table of contents, sample of
pages, headings or bolded
information, and illustrations
in a text. Book or picture walks
spark students’ interest and
give students an opportunity
to begin thinking about or
anticipate the story while
making connections.
3 The class collaboratively creates a written work. 3.They become aware of the
The teacher models the writing and the students relationships between oral and
help in composing it. The teacher models a range visual representations, and
of skill like grammar, phonics, punctuation, recognise patterns and
spelling, and the writing process itself. relationships Young children
begin to explore written
communication by scribbling,
drawing and producing
approximations of writing. first
and foremost, children’s
meaning making of images and
other symbol systems various
oral language skills including
concept development and
vocabulary, grammar, and
narrative comprehension
emergent literacy skills like
concepts of print, early
phonological awareness, early
letter-sound awareness, and
knowledge of text types.
|||. ABSTRACT
Your task this time is to figure out the characteristics of a balanced literacy instruction.
With a partner, go back to the sample activities provided in the Analyze activity. Discuss
with your partner how each sample combine the part-to-whole and the whole-to-part
methods. Complete the grid below.
Activity 3