Category Archive: The Balanced Language Approach with the Sebezaphone: Course Offering

The Sebezaphone to teach the Balanced Language Approach to Literacy

The Sebezaphone is just what educators need to succeed in the Balanced Language Approach. With the Sebezaphone every learner can be fully and productively engaged in two hours of daily practice in becoming good readers and writers. Following is a framework for teaching to ensure there is a complete integration of all the components of …

Continue reading »

Course offering

The Balanced Language Approach to Literacy: Succeed in implementing South Africa’s CAPS and Foundation of Learning Campaign. The driving force behind literacy is to communicate and connect with others. When our teaching focuses on meeting basic social needs, learners hunger to learn how to read, write and speak and listen to one another. In a series …

Continue reading »

How to Use the Sebezaphone to develop Good Readers and Writers

Words and Sentence Level Work  (30 min daily) By speaking into their Sebezaphone to say the sounds made by letter patterns, learners are better able to Perform role of Code Breaker Hear the phonemes more distinctly and clearly Say and hear sounds made by letter patterns Read and spell high-frequency words By hearing what they …

Continue reading »

The Sebezaphone and the Balanced Language Approach to Literacy

Words and Sentence Level Work (30 min daily) Enable learners to become CODE BREAKERS who can: Decode words in the text and their meaning Recognize sounds that go with spelling patterns Automatically and fluently read and spell high-frequency words Use phonics and spelling patterns to work out unknown words Learners use their Sebezaphones to: Identify …

Continue reading »