Month: November 2023

CHARACTER FORMATION FOR NATION BUILDING

• Follows the process of going through the five macro skills: pag-unawa (understanding), pagninilay (reflecting), pagsangguni (consulting), pagpapasya (decision making), and pagkilos (performing/acting)erse interests and abilities, at the same time helping them achieve mastery of the required competencies for each level.
• Uses the five macro skills to enable the learners to eventually develop desirable attitudes and habits, for them to grow in their capacity and personal commitment to do their best, to do what is the good, and to lead a more meaningful and integrated human experience
• Envisions young persons who are committed to self-fulfillment, family-centered, disciplined and self-reliant, socially mature and emotionally stable, nationalistic and responsible citizens, and God-loving and deeply rooted in their faith in God.
• As our young Filipino learners go through the lessons in this worktext, they will hopefully learn:
• pagpapakatao at pagiging kasapi ng pamilya (becoming human and family responsibility);
• pakikipagkapwa (treating others as fellow human beings);
• pagmamahal sa bansa at pakikibahagi sa pandaigdigang pagkakaisa (love of country and global solidarity);
• pagkamaka-Diyos at preperansya sa kabutihan (Love for God and Preference for the Good).

Making Reading Easy

• Develops preschoolers’ reading skills
• Employs the communicative competence and discovery approaches to facilitate the use of English in real-life communication situations 
• Helps pupils recognize the letters of the alphabet and associate pictures with letter sounds
• Acquaints pupils with a wide range of vocabulary that includes words with long vowel sounds
• Builds up writing skills
• Assists learners in mastering reading words with short vowel sounds and blends
• Leads young readers to enjoy a variety of short stories and read them with fluency and comprehension
• Teaches preschoolers how to spell short and simple words through exercises on supplying the missing letters and unscrambling the letters

Write Smart

• Teaches pupils to learn how to encode letters, words, sentences, and numerals to the point of mastery through drawing, coloring, tracing, copying, and other activities that seem more like play than writing drills
• Introduces pupils to the major prewriting strokes—straight, oblique, and circular— presenting them as elements of attractive pictures to make writing an enjoyable activity
• Comes with a set of comprehensive teachers guides
• Aids in developing pupils’ vocabulary with writing exercises on the alphabet and letter picture association
• Provides sufficient guides—broken lines, dots, arrows, and numbered strokes—to help preschoolers as they perform the writing activities
• Abides by a systematic progression of skills as lessons arranged from easy to difficult across units and across levels

• Reading Network, Nursey, Kindergarten 1 and Kindergarten 2 first edition K to 12.
• Train learners to become literate in the English language!
• The worktext is designed to help young English language learners to acquire the skills necessary to get used to the English alphabet and other accompanying rudiments toward beginning literacy.
• The series provides activities and tests that lead to mastery. The results should signal the teacher of the pupils’ ability in beginning literacy.

The series helps the learners to:

• Recognize and name the letters of the alphabet
• Associate letters with their sounds
• Print uppercase and lowercase letters
• Match identical objects, colors, shapes, and symbols
• Differentiate left from right
• Recite the days of the week
• Recite the months of the year
• Recall details in a story
• Sequence events
• Predict outcomes
• Make inference
• Draw conclusions by evaluating facts presented
• Carry out simple tasks
• Form new words using beginning and ending consonant blends
• Identify different consonant blends
• Spell words correctly
• Answer “why” questions
• Read words accurately
• Associate words with pictures
• Form new words while decoding beginning and ending consonant digraphs, sound patterns of word families, vowel teams, and y as a consonant and a vowel

SCIENCE FOR ACTIVE LEARNING  

• Involves pupils’ minds and hands basic science concepts and skills!

• Emphasizes the interplay of reflective thinking (mind) and active learning (hands) in science education
• Tackles basic science concepts such as living things and nonliving things
• Provides preschoolers with differentiated activities appropriate for their age
• Puts fun into science learning by using songs, rhymes, poems, chants, and riddles in presenting the lessons
• Assists pupils in summarizing and organizing concepts through concept maps in Learning Map