LEARNING EXPERIENCES FOR LITERACY LEARNERS

What Do I Know?
As a literacy volunteer, what ideas can you give or share on these following topics?
1. Who may be in your literacy class?

2. What do you know about your learners?

3. What lessons will you prepare for your learners? 4. What materials will you plan and prepare? 5. How will you find out if your learners learn what you want then to learn?

What Do I Want To Know?

A teacher plans a curriculum for his/her learners. The curriculum includes experiences that are systematically planned.
On mothers who do not know how to read nor

write, what will you teach them? If your literacy class is made up of high school

drop-outs, what literacy activities will you plan for them?

Curriculum refers to all the planned experiences, which the learners may be exposed to, in order to learn the things you want them to learn.
The literacy teacher and/or volunteer must have a guide which will include all the learning experiences which the literacy learners may be exposed to, in order to achieve the desired learning goals.

Usually, a curriculum guide specifies:

A statement of aims and of specific objectives or the learning goals or desired outcomes.

An example of an aim is: Learners should be able to fill out an application form for job (for out-of-school youth learners).

The content or scope and nature of the materials to be studied or different activities to attain objectives. learning activities testing/evaluating activities

A sample guide typically has this structure:

___________________________ Lesson Learners: Out-of-school youth learners

Objectives: To be able to fill out an application form for a job. Content / Materials Learning Activities A. Learning the parts of the forms - Personal information - Job experiences - etc. B. Interpreting items in the form Evaluation

FILLING OUT JOB APPLICATION FORMS

Materials: Sample application forms

Filling out a sample form

Sample Lesson
Lesson: Going to a Store
Learners: Preschoolers

Objectives: Identify things found in different kinds of store Associate pictures with their names Write the correct initial letter forms of the given words Group things found in the store according to their beginning letters
Content/Materials Learning Activities Evaluation

Content: Names of Things Sold in a Store Initial Letters of Words Grouping Words according to their Initial Letters

A. Introduction 1. Teacher presents the picture of a store. 2. Asks pupils what comes in their mind when they see the presented place?

1. Conduct a group game. Let the pupils group the items found in the store according to their initial letters.

Materials Picture of a store Picture or real items being sold in a store

Flashcards

3. Focus the pupils attention on the things 2. Present the being sold or bought in the store. following pictures B. Activities/ found in the store Lesson Proper and let the pupils 1. Teacher narrates a story about a girl who write their initial goes along with her mother to a store. letters. 2. Focus the pupils attention to the items, 3. Let the pupils say which one can buy in a store. and write the initial 3. A picture or a real sample of the item may be presented top the class. letters of these 4. Assists the pupils in remembering the words: names of the items. 5. Teacher may use the flashcards in catsup presenting the names of the item sold in shampoo the store. eggs 6. Hold a discussion. Teacher may ask: detergent Where did mother and the girl go? What can one buy in a store? 7. Focus on the names of the items found deodorant oil in the store butter softener 8. Ask the pupils to name the initial letters of these items soap milk 9. Let the pupils classify or group these canned goods words based on their initial letters. sponge 10. Hold a drill.

What Did I Learn?

Activity 1 Write True if the sentence tells something correct and write False if the

Directions:

sentence tells something wrong.

_____1. Curriculum refers to the planned experiences which the learner may be exposed in the classroom only. _____2. The terms program, plan or guide can be used instead of curriculum. _____3. The activities in a literacy class should be based on the characteristics and needs of its learners. _____4. The following usually compose a curriculum objectives, contents, learning

activities, and evaluation.

_____5. Learning activities include the manner and materials to find out how the learners benefited from the program. _____6. Teacher-made tests, workbook exercises, graded recitations are evaluation tools.

Directions: Match the terms in column A with their meanings in column B.

A B the learning goals or desired outcomes

7.

aims and objectives

8.

contents

certain patterns of learning and teaching

Learning activities

the manner and materials to find out how the learners benefited from the program

evaluation

10.

the scope and nature of the materials to be studied

Activity 1.1 Directions: Identify which are being described. Choose from the words listed in the box. Learning Activities Aims or objectives Classroom
1.

Curriculum Evaluation tools learners

Evaluation types experiences

2.

3.

4. 5.

The learning experiences which the teacher conveys to his/her learners in the form of lessons, activities, resources and evaluation tools make-up the _____________. Teacher-made tests, workbooks, exercises, graded recitations are among the _____________ which are used to find out how the learners benefited from the program. Curriculum refers to all planned experiences which the learners may be exposed to in and outside the _____________ in order to achieve the learning goals. The learning goals or desired outcomes are also known as the ____________. The activities in a literacy class should be based on the characteristics and needs of its ______________.

THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!