Strategies in Promoting

Numeracy and Literacy

REYNEL S. REBOLLOS
Presenter
 Session Objectives:
1. Define literacy and numeracy;
2. Identify the essential components in
teaching reading;
3. Discuss the essential pre-number and
early number concepts;
4. Explain some of the basic principles in
teaching Mathematics to children;
5. Identify appropriate strategies and
activities in teaching Mathematics; and
6. Demonstrate knowledge in teaching
reading and mathematics by applying the
strategies presented through a
demonstration teaching
 Your thoughts
about
LITERACY?

1. How do you ensure that the children under your

care receive variety of opportunities that promote
and develop their literacy skills?

1. What do you think you can do to help improve or

enhance these opportunities?
 A demonstrated
competence in
communication skills that
It stresses on
enables the individual to one’s ability to
function (appropriate to
age), independently of
use language in
society and with a potential daily life
for movement in society

LITERACY
Grows and
The ability to develop through
their way of
read and interaction with
write responsive adults
and peers
Group Activity

Common
Issues in
Teaching
Reading
Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Component Example of
Definition
Activities
• Oral Language • Refers to the • Story reading
knowledge activities
and use of the • Poems
structure, • Jingles
meanings and • Finger plays
uses of the
language of • Dramatizatio
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• Dialogues
• Show and tell
• I spy
• Play
activities
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Phonological Awareness – involve working

with rhymes, words, syllables, and onsets
and rimes.

Example of Activities:

❑Students listen to determine if two words

begin or end with the same sound
(discriminating)
❑Students clap the number of words in a
sentence, syllables in a word, sounds in a
word (counting)
❑ Students create tongue twisters
“Sally’s silly shoe sank slowly in the
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

❑ Students say the word and then say each syllable

or sound (inside is /in/side/ or /i/ /n/ /s/ /i/ d/
(segmenting)
❑ Deleting ( bat becomes at)
❑ Adding (add / b/ to at becomes bat)
❑ Substituting
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Phonemic Awareness

The ability to identify the

phonemes (smallest identifiable unit
of sound) of spoken language, and
how they can be separated (pulled
apart or segmented), blended (put
back together), and then
manipulated (added, deleted
substituted). and
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Example of Activities:
❑ Students can use letters to
manipulate phonemes and apply
their knowledge of segmenting
and blending when they read new
words.
❑ Segmenting
say the first sound in sit, mop
❑ Blending sounds
-say an. Put /c/ in front of an.
Say the word
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Example of Activities:
❑ Students can use letters to
manipulate phonemes and apply
their knowledge of segmenting
and blending when they read new
words.
❑ Segmenting
say the first sound in sit, mop
❑ Blending sounds
-say an. Put /c/ in front of an.
Say the word
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Book and Print Orientation

It refers to knowing and
being acquainted with how
books and how print works

Example of Activities
1. Let the child hold a book and let him/ her identify the
parts of a book like front and back cover and its pages
2. Tell the child that the book has an author and illustrator
3. Let the child flip the pages of the book sequentially, one
page at a time
4. Point to the child where the story begins
5. Model the correct return sweep
6. Model looking at the left page before looking at the
right page
7. Convey message to the child that most books is in
print and not pictures
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities
ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE
Refers to recognizing, naming,
and sounding out all the upper
and lower case letters of the
alphabet

1. Let the child identify the

letters of the alphabet
2. Let the child name each
letter
3. Let the child sound each
letter (Filipino)
4. Let the child sound each
consonant (English)
5. Let the child match the upper with the
lower case letters
Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

The accurate and

rapid naming or
reading of letters,
sounds, words,
sentences or
passages
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities
• Provide students with opportunities for repeated oral
reading that includes support and feedback from
teachers, peers and parents
• Determine the students’ reading levels, and ensure texts
are
matched to them

Skill Level on Fluency

1. Independent Level text – students can read
easily, making fewer than five mistakes for every
100 words (95% correct)

2.Instructional Level Text- students typically

make fewer than 10 mistakes for every 100 words
(90% correct)

3.Frustration Level Text- Students make more

than 10 mistakes for every 100 words (90% correct
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Exercises that can improve fluency:

1. Reading with a model reader

2. Choral reading
3. Tape-recorded readings
4. Readers’ theater or reading performances
5. Partner readings
Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

Refers to understanding the

MEANING of words

1. Use examples and nonexamples

2. Use synonyms or definitions
3. Create word maps
4. Vocabulary posters
5. Add-a-part: prefixes and suffixes
6. Context clues
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

❑ It is an active process of
constructing meaning from text;
❑ It involves previous
accessing knowledge,understanding
vocabulary and concepts, making
inferences and linking ideas
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

❑ Suggested strategies from National

Reading Panel (2000)
1. Provide students with guided practice
and suggestions on how to monitor their
comprehension and adjust how they
read when difficulties arise;
2. Encourage cooperative learning
practices for reading;
3. Use graphic and semantic organizers
that help students draw connections,
relationships and word meanings;
4. Design questions that address the story
structure;
 Essential Components of Proven Reading Activities

5. Provide extended feedback and for

student’s responses;
6.Allow students to elaborate on
one another’s responses to questions;
7.Prepare students to ask their
own questions about what they read;
8.Teach students to write key
information about what they’ve read
while they are reading and to summarize
these key points after reading longer
passages;
9.Teach students strategies that can
be combined to understand text.
1. How will you transform
your classroom to literacy
rich?
2. What do you think is the
reason why there’s a need
to follow sequence in
teaching reading?
3. Why is there a need to
assess the reading
performance of the
students?
1. How will you transform
your classroom to literacy
rich?
2. What do you think is the
reason why there’s a need
to follow sequence in
teaching reading?
3. Why is there a need to
assess the reading
performance of the
students?
Numeracy is the ability to reason and to apply
simple numerical concepts.
Basic numeracy skills consist of comprehending
fundamental arithmetical operations like addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division.