The Balanced Literacy Model
Monday, May 18, 2015
Alhamdulillah.
Our bunch has graduated from the Specialist Course of
Literacy Development with flying colours (our lecturer told us so and yes we
believed it!).
The course required us to attend 10 days of instruction,
tabled a forum, and completed 2 online assignments and reporting on our Action
Plan. The course was demanding and I was
forced to learn and that was good. There were many things which I took for
granted and from now on I will try my best to have the best ‘cognitive clarity’
on those matters.
From the course I understand that literacy is everything.
Literacy is nothing but all the four skills. The skills are interdependence and
one simply cannot point out which skill precedes after another. Nonetheless, we
must try our best in accommodating the needs of the learners.
In determining the best way to approach our learners, we must
have ideas on how they learn by:
- · Focusing on how the community learn. We can do this by observing how the community works and what they do for a living.
- · Constant assessment on the interaction of the learners and the surrounding. You will be surprised after spending time with your learners outside of the classroom. Their perception on the world is different and we can see on how they relate it to their lives.
Our learners come into the classroom with a bag of
knowledge. No one starts at zero even on the first day of school. They brought
in their experiences on literacy, the kind they were introduced by their
parents, families and people around them. Taking these into consideration, put
it together with our prior observation, we can foresee the success in our
teaching.
The success lies on how we use the information to determine
the level of the learners thus devising appropriate intervention. The
interventions can be seen in our version of the balanced literacy model.
My group members and I interpreted the balanced literacy
model to incorporate the four skills of the language.
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| Our Version! |
In each skill, we can
scaffold our learners by modelling/sharing/ interacting/guiding them in order
to achieve independence. These skills
required ongoing word study and further assess to monitor effectiveness of
teaching.
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| I lost the source! Pardon me! |
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