SESSION 2 – Communicative Competence through Oral Language

Activity 1- True or False

Write True if the statement is a factual information and False if otherwise.
_____TRUE______ 1. Oral language is the ability to speak and listen.
______FALSE_____ 2. Oral language problems have little impact on the reading and writing
difficulties of learners.
____TRUE_______ 3. Oral language is at the base of literacy.
___FALSE________ 4. All children are fortunate to be born into homes where parents or
caregivers provide rich language experiences. These children enter schools with good oral
language skills.
____TRUE_______ 5. Children who have strong oral language skills often have strong reading
and writing skills.

Follow Along

SESSION 3: Raising Learner’s Phonological Awareness as Foundation Skills to Decoding

ANTICIPATION GUIDE
Directions: For each of the following statements, write “AGREE”

or “DISAGREE” to show how you feel.

1. One pre-requisite for learning to read is being aware that words consist of
individual sounds. AGREE
2. Phonemic awareness is a strong predictor of success in beginning reading.AGREE
3. Phonemic awareness encompasses large units of sounds or phonemes such as
syllables and onsets and rimes. AGREE
4. There are five phonemes in the number word eight. AGREE
5. Phonemic Awareness Instruction is most effective when children are taught to
manipulate the sounds of the letters in the alphabet. AGREE
6. Phonemic Awareness and Phonics are similar terms. DISAGREE
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Activity:What Phonemic Awareness Task Am I?(5 mins)

1. Tell me the first sound in bed. /b/

2. Tell me the sound that is the same in: man, map, mat. /m/

3. Which word does not belong: pan, pet, car? car

4. What word is produced from the sounds /k/ /ey/ /k/? cake
 5. How many sounds are their in happy? 4

6. What is cart without /t/? car

7. Replace /d/ in dice with /r/. What is the new word? rice

Answer the following questions in connection with the “What Phonemic Awareness Task Am
I? activity”. (5 mins)
1.What is the focus of all the activities? SOUNDS
2. What skill was developed? PHONEMIC AWARENESS
3. How are the activities presented? Are they easy or difficult? Why? EASY
4. How often do you do this in your classroom? ALWAYS
5. What have you realized upon focusing on activities like this in the classroom? YES

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PHONEMIC AWARENESS ASSESSMENT

DIRECTIONS: Analyze and answer each item below. Then, opposite your answer, indicate the phonemic task
being assessed

Example: Tell me the last sound in take.

Answer: /k/ - Phoneme Isolation

1. Tell me the last sound in big. Answer: /g/ - _______________________

2. Tell me the sound that is the same in bus, big, ball. Answer: /b/ - _____________

3. Which word does not belong: mat, map, boy, men? Answer: boy- _____________

4. What word is /s/ /k/ /uw/ /l/? Answer: school- _______________________

5. How many sounds are there in cake? Answer: 4- _____________________

6. What is smile without /s/? Answer: mile - _______________________

7. What is pot with /s/ at the beginning? Answer: spot- _____________________

8. What will become of house if you change h to m? mouse- _____________________

Assignment: (To be submitted first hour on the next day.)

Select three of the PA tasks/items in the “Let’s Find Out” activity.

 Then, construct five (5) sample exercises for each of the three selected tasks.

PA task:

1. Phoneme Deletion
What is start without /s/?
What is scary without /y/?
What is smart without /s/?
What is scar without /s/?
What is flat without /l/?
2. PhonemeAddition
What is car with /s/ at the beginning?
What is scar with /y/ at the ending?
What is scar with /f/ at the ending?
What is care with /s/ at the beginning?
What is tart with /s/ at the beginning?
3. Phoneme Substitution
What will become of round if you change r to f?
What will become of sound if you change s to h?
What will become of mice if you change m to r?
What will become of smart if you change m to t?
What will become of big if you change b to f?
NOTE: The outputs will be collected every after first hour on the next day.

Session 8

HOMEWORK:

 COMPLETE THE STATEMENT:

In this session, I’ve realized that it is good to embrace new changes

Hence, when I go back to my own class/school/office, I will

Apply what I’ve learned in this training

Session 11: What’s the Big Picture?

Getting the Main Idea

Name: ______________________________________________________________________

Activity 1

4 PICS 1 WORD

1.________________
2. ________________

3. ________________

4. ____________________
5. ____________________
6. ____________________

Activity 2
Small Ideas
Big Ideas
Pick out the big idea from each group of ideas

1.
English Honesty
French Self – reliance
Chinese Virtues
Nationals Courage
Japanese Chastity
Swiss Temperance

2. Greed Astronomy
Truth Geology
Ideas Science
Wisdom Bacteriology
Beauty Biochemistry
Justice Demography

3. Supply the big idea for each small idea

RELIGION COMMUNICATION
Islam Tapes
Christianity
Telephone
Buddhism
Telegraph
Judaism
Radio
 Activity 3
Let’s Listen and Tell Worksheet
Directions: Read each paragraph carefully. Then select the best title of the paragraph. Circle the letter of
your answer.

1. The Filipino flag has an interesting story because it has had many changes until it now looks the way it
does. The Katipunan used a red flag with three white Ks in the middle. Then Bonifacio changed it by
putting a white sun over the row of K’s. But first real Filipino flag was made by Mrs. Marcela Agoncillo
in Hongkong. General Emilio Aguinaldo brought it to the country. He raised it when he proclaimed
Philippine Independence.
What is the best title of the paragraph?
a. The History of the Filipino Flag
b. The Red Flag of the Katipunan
c. The First Real Filipino Flag
d. Bonifacio and the Filipino Flag

2. Trees help us in many ways. They give us food. Some trees give us medicine. They give lumber for
our homes. They furnish us firewood for our kitchen fire. They supply wood for building cars, ships
and buses. They also give lumber for our bridge.
The best title of the paragraph is:
a. Where Trees Grow
b. Trees that Give Lumber
c. Trees that Give Food
d. How Trees Help Us

3. Comets are huge snowballs varying in size – 900 meters to 800 kilometers in diameter – wandering at
intervals throughout the solar system. Most comets travel around the sun in the same direction as our
earth and other planets. Though the comets travel around the sun, they follow different paths. Long
period comets travel in orbits which carry them halfway to the nearest star, taking several thousands
of years in a journey. Short period comets travel in smaller orbits passing the sun at least once every
200 years.
a. Kinds of Comets
b. Orbits of the Comets
c. How Comets Travel
d. Comets and the Sun

4. Good luck charms vary with different peoples. In China, jade brings good luck but the jade must be a
gift, not bought. Among the Texans in the United States, some people carry a piece of bone from a fish
head, but good luck comes only after it has been lost. For the common people in New Jersey, a potato
is carried for good luck, which is more powerful if it is stolen. In Japan, spilling salt is considered lucky.
Finding a horseshoe is a sign of good luck in the Philippines.
a. Jade is good luck for the Chinese
b. Fishbone brings good luck to Texans
c. Philippine lucky symbol – a horseshoe
d. Good luck charms vary with different peoples.

5. There are many customs associated with a wedding dating back to earliest times. Traditionally, the
bride wore white to show her purity and innocence. She wore her bridal veil to ward off evil spirits
who might harm her. Plain gold rings were exchanged in most marriage ceremonies. The ring which
has no beginning or end, it being a circle, stands for eternity. Many brides wore something old,
something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
a. Superstitions in Marriage
b. How a Wedding Ceremony is Performed
c. The Pure and Innocent Bride
d. Wedding Customs
e. Have the participants check their own answers.
f. Ask: How did you fare in the test?
 Activity 4
Choose the best title
1. Do you know what hawks eat? They
eat insects and small animals. They
eat mice, grasshoppers, and other
animals that destroy the farmer’s
crops. They also eat spiders, lizards,
and crickets.
a. Food for the Hawk
b. Uses of the Hawk
c. Life of the Hawk

Choose the best title

2. Butterflies fly from flower to flower. As
they alight from flower to flower, grains
stick to their legs. The grains are
carried to another flower. The transfer
of grains from one flower to another
helps in making the seeds. The
butterflies are garden friends.
a. Making the Seeds
b. Butterflies
c. At the Garden
 Choose the main idea
3.Adolescence is the period between puberty and adulthood. Puberty, the time when reproduction activities
become possible, begins between the ages of 11 and 13 among boys and between 10 and 14 among
girls. It lasts until 16 to 17 for boys and for girls until 14 and 16 although girls seldom
reachreproductive powers before 16.

Answer:
Adolescence is the period between puberty and adulthood

Choose the main idea

4. Household wastes are unsightly, smelly, and the most common breeding places of pests that cause
disease. Proper management of household wastes is imperative in order to prevent diseases. A most
rewarding consequence is that you can cash in on trash.

Answer:
Proper management of household wastes is imperative in order to prevent diseases

Identify the sentence that does not support the main idea.
5. Braille is the special alphabet that blind people use to read. Each character is made of small dots that rise out of
the paper in a special pattern. They make use of a cane when walking. Blind people read Braille by using
their fingers to feel each letter.

Answer:
They make use of a cane when walking