Month: October 2021

English This Way ensures mastery of the English language through:

• Providing a comprehensive study of the structure, usage, and grammar of the English language
• Giving ample discussions of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and sentences
• Involving pupils in discovering for themselves grammar rules and patterns through numerous examples culled from real-life situations
• Articulating the skills to be acquired in each lesson
• Facilitating ensuing evaluation
• Integrating values and skills in the different subject areas as opposed to piecemeal and fragmented instruction, for language skills are integral to other subject areas
• Utilizing different fun strategies, such as comic strips, dramatizations, puzzles, and drawing exercises

The following are the lesson components of the series:

• Unblock prompts and motivates the learner through a variety of pictures, questions, and graphic organizers.
• Uncover introduces new and unfamiliar words in the selection through interesting and varied
  clues.
• Activate, Enrich, and Engage present activities designed to address knowledge, process, and understanding of the skills
• Connect takes on the reading-to-writing connection to build the assimilation of skills through
  notes and summary statements.
• Keep in Mind recaps the skills learned by providing a transition statement for promoting
  understanding. It helps the learner to maintain focus and make meaning of the important
  grammar and reading points.
• Engaging Scenario is the application of the skill in different contexts and various forms of media
  through a performance task with an accompanying rubric as a guide for evaluation.
• Viewing provides closure to the entire lesson through a visual application of the skill in various forms of media.

Mold the communicative competence of Filipino learners in using English as a second language with IEEC.

A comprehensive integrated worktext series for grade school pupils that will surely make them LOOK into
their life, SPEND life with others, SHARE lives together, and BUILD one life, one dream, one world! Z Life Today gets the pupils started with either phonics, spelling, or vocabulary development.

• Life Is Good contains various types of literary selections, which reveal that all persons are essentially good
  and life is infinitely worth living.
• Life Is Exciting provides pupils with exercises that will teach them how to do reference work, how to
  understand and appreciate what they read, and how to enjoy reading.
• Life Is Challenging hones study and literary appreciation skills.
• Grammar Link contains discussions on and exercises in language forms and functions.
•  Enjoy Life develops the pupils’ God-given talents in singing, drawing, playing games, solving puzzles, or writing.

The Worktext can be used in three different ways: as part of a lesson in the regular reading and/or Communication Arts Program; as the main text in an extensive course for mastering the four fundamental reading skills; and as a complementary text in a corrective/remedial reading program.

The PLP series is organized into five major areas—each developing a cluster of important subskills needed for an effective reading course. The Worktext contains reading exercises ranging from easy to difficult: Starter, Reinforcer, and Challenger. A score-to-percent conversion table and a student’s record sheet for recording the exercises results and the child’s progress are found at the back pages.

The following are the essential features of the series:

• Selections that include a wide range of literary genre for skill development
• Emphasis on phonics
• Thematic in structure
• Emphasis on values and integration with other subject areas
• Use of rubrics as a form of assessment
• Provision of online resources for enrichment
• Development of the key concepts of environmental education, gender sensitivity, justice and peace education, and political education

Components:

The worktext is a treasure trove of literary genre with high quality literature used as springboards for the integrated language system of the series. The sequential arrangement of skills provides for teaching, practice, and application exercises that are rich and varied. Integrated in the lesson are guiding principles under which key concepts, such as environment education, gender sensitivity education, peace and justice education, and political education are developed. Hence, the worktext features not only activities for enriching language experiences but also values formation.