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 of workshops,
- Discover how you can address learners’ social and emotional needs and give every child a love of reading, writing and learning.
- Acquire a variety of learner-centred game-like activities to teach all components of literacy: listening, speaking, reading, phonics, writing and thinking strategies
- Ensure productive pair and group work with Co-operative Learning and Multiple Intelligences
- Design integrated lessons for all aspects of language literacy
- Words and Sentence Level Work (e.g. phonics, decoding and encoding skills; vocabulary development, sentence formation, word attack strategies)
- Thinking Strategies for making meaning from text (e.g. Shared and Guided Reading that actively engage learners in finding personal meaning in the text)
- Writing (Shared, Guided and Independent writing, applying thinking strategies to express oneself)
- Independent reading of self-selected texts, where learners apply strategic reading strategies to help themselves better understand what they read.
- Use the Sebezaphone to develop good readers and writers.
- The Sebezaphone is a handheld ‘phone’ that enables every learner to read out loud at once – in a whisper. Without disturbing others, the Sebezaphone amplifies each reader’s voice so that they better hear themselves read. Phoneme differentiation improves, learners better work out unknown words and meaning; and their ability to focus on reading increases. The Sebezaphone improves fluency, comprehension, confidence as readers, writers and speakers.
*For more information – email alyce at: alyce<at>icon<dot>co<dot>za
Sebezaphone Leaflet