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National Commission for Culture and the Arts

Philippine Cultural Education Program

Project Most Essential Filipino Cultural Learning Competencies (MEFCLCs) 1st Review

Instructions:

1. Identify the culture-based MECLCs in the curriculum guides of the subject areas and grade levels assigned to you.
2. Encode the culture-based MECLCs in the appropriate grading period.
3. Feel free to edit the template, as may be necessary such as adding or deleting tables, columns, rows, bullets, etc.
4. In the Project MEFCLC Google Drive link (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1WdCHRFbOSR9sCcF5_I3ZuwXCdN9Wcrbv), create a
folder for your subject area and upload this document in PDF with the file name, Project MEFCLC – Subject Area – 1 st Review (ex. Project
MEFCLC – Science – 1st Review).
5. Keep the word version of the file with you.
6. Submit on or before May 31, 2021.

Subject Area: ENGLISH

Kinder Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

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Grade 1 Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

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Third Quarter  Recognize rhyming words in nursery rhymes, poems, songs heard
 Use words that are related to self, family, school, and community
Use/Respond appropriately to polite expressions: greetings, leave takings, expressing
gratitude and apology, asking permission, offering help
 Talk about oneself, one’s family and one’s personal experiences

Fourth Quarter  Recognize describing words for people, objects, things and places (color, shape, size,
height, weight, length, distance, etc.)
 Sort and Classify familiar words into basic categories (colors, shapes, foods, etc)

Grade 2 Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

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First Quarter Classify/Categorize sounds heard (animals, mechanical, objects, musical instruments,
 environment, speech)
 Identify the English equivalent of words in the Mother Tongue or in Filipino
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Third Quarter Participate in choral speaking and echo reading of short poems, rhymes and stories with
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Grade 3 Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

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Describe one’s drawing about the stories/poems listened to using simple and compound
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Write a short descriptive paragraph about a character or setting in stories listened to
Write a short paragraph providing another ending for a story listened to
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Fourth Quarter Present information in varied artistic ways (e.g. role playing, show and tell, radio
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Grade 7 Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

First Quarter Identify the genre, purpose, intended audience and features of various viewed texts such
 as movie clip, trailer, newsflash, internet-based program, documentary, video
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Explain how a selection may be influenced by culture, history, environment, or other
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Grade 8 Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

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Third Quarter  Analyze literature as a mirror to a shared heritage of people with diverse backgrounds
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Grade 9 Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

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Make connections between texts to particular social issues, concerns, or dispositions
 in real life
Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging values in the VUCA
 (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world
 Differentiate biases from prejudices
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Grade 10 Most Essential Cultural Learning Competencies (MECLCs)

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nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnCritique a literary selection based on the
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- structuralist/formalist
- moralist
- Marxist
- feminist
- historical reader-response
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Fourth Quarter  Compose a research report on a relevant social issue
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Signature over Printed Name: PATSON P. OPIDO

Date of Submission: 31 May 2021