Language Arts with the Language Arts with the Teaching of Contents/ Teaching of Contents/ Subject AreasSubject Areas

“The first years of life are important because what

happens in early childhood can matter in a lifetime.”

(Harvard, 2009)

CCONTENT STANDARDSONTENT STANDARDS

-are what the students should know (facts and information),what they do (process or skills), and what understanding they construct as they process the information. The students are expected not only to understand but also to demonstrate what they learn, thus providing evidence of learning.

PPERFORMANCE ERFORMANCE STANDARDSSTANDARDS

-are what students do or how they use their learning and understanding. The students are expected to produce products and/or performances to prove that they can apply what they learn in real-life situations.

CONTENT AND PERFORMANCE CONTENT AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AT THE END OF STANDARDS AT THE END OF GRADE 3GRADE 3• ORAL LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH

– have sufficient facility in English to understand spoken discource and to talk and interact with each other about personal experiences and text listened or read

• PHONOLOGICAL SKILLS– be able to demonstrate phonological

awareness at the levels of syllable and the phoneme

• BOOK AND PRINT KNOWLEDGE– use narrative and expository texts for

independent study and reading for pleasure• ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE

– recognize, name and sound out all the upper and lower case of the alphabet

• PHONIC AND WORD RECOGNITION– use sight recognition or phonic analysis to

read and understand the words in English that contain complex letter combinations, affixes and contractions

• FLUENCY– read aloud grade level texts effortlessly,

without hesitation and with proper expression• SPELLING

– spell words with two or more syllables using phonic, semantic and morphemic knowledge

• WRITING/ COMPOSITION– express their ideas effectively in formal and

informal compositions to fulfill their own purpose for writing

• HANDWRITING– write legibly in cursive

• GRAMMAR AWARENESS AND STRUCTURE– demonstrate grammatical awareness by being

able to read, speak and write correctly– communicate effectively, in oral and written

forms, using the correct grammatical structure of English

• VOCABULARY– acquire, study, and use English vocabulary

words appropriately in relevant contents

READING COMPREHENSION READING COMPREHENSION AND STUDY STRATEGIESAND STUDY STRATEGIES• USE OF CONTENT AND PRIOR

KNOWLEDGE– activate prior knowledge conceptually related

to text and establish a purpose for reading • COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES

– be self-aware as tehy discuss and analyze to create new meanings and modify old knowledge

• COMPREHENDING LITERARY TEXT– respond to literary text through the

appreciation of literary devices and understanding of the story grammar

• COMPREHENDING INFORMAL TEXT– locate information from expository texts and

use this information for discussion and written production

• ATTITUDE– demonstrate love for reading stories and

confidence in performing literacy-related tasks

CONTENT AND PERFORMANCE CONTENT AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AT THE END OF STANDARDS AT THE END OF GRADE 12GRADE 12• ORAL LANGUAGE

– (CS) understands the standards of English in order to participate in various oral communication demands (situation, purpose and audience

– (PS) has sufficient facility in English to understand spoken discourse and to talk and interact with others about personal experiences and texts listened or read

• PHONOLOGICAL SKILLS– (CS) metacognitively understands that spoken

words are composed of a series of souds and those sounds occur within a particular order

– (PS) is able to demonstrate phonological awareness at the levels of syllable and phoneme

• BOOK AND PRINT KNOWLEDGE– (CS) knowledge of the alphabet (It is the

understanding that letters have sounds which can be associated with them and that there is some relationship between the sequence of the letters seen in print and sound sequence heard

– Concepts about print.(It is the understanding of the rules required to record oral languages into a written language.)

– Function of print.(Understanding that print has meaning and function of either telling a story or conveying information such as direction is final area of understanding bout the children need.)

– (PS) uses literary and informational texts for independent study and reading pfor leasure

• ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE– (CS) understands the features of each letter

that make it different from all other letters– (PS) recognizes, names, and sounds out all

the upper and lower case letters of the aplphabet

• PHONEMES AND WORD RECOGNITION– (CS) recognizes words and constructs

meaning about them based on series of cues including word shape, comceptual, perceptual, phonological, and semantic information happening instanteously

– (PS) uses sight words recognition or phonic analysis to read and understand words in English that contain complex letter combinations, affixes and contractions of acquiring a high level of “fluency” in English in order to be understood by both native and non-native listeners through

• Reading– the ability to easily read and understand text written in

the language• Writing

– the ability to formulate written texts in the language• Languages

– the ability to follow and understand speech in the language

• Speaking– the ability to produce speech in the language and be

understood by its speakers

– (PS) read aloud grade level texts effortlessly without hesitation and proper expression

• SPELLING– (CS) understand that words are formed with

different letters in the accepted order (orthography)

– (PS) spells words with two or more syllables using phonic, and morphemic expression

• WRITING/ COMPOSITION– (CS) understands the different formas to write

for a variety of audiences and purposes– (PS) expresses their ideas effectively in the

forman and informal compositions to fulfill their own purposes for writing

• HANDWRITING– (CS) understands that there is an acceptable

and comprehensible “handwriting” style of writing with pen or pencil in order to convey the meaning to others

– (PS) writes legibly in cursive writing• GRAMMAR AWARENESS AND

STRUCTURE– (CS) understands that English language has a

set of structure rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in oral and written communication

– (PS) demonstrates grammatical awareness by beiing able to read, speak and write correctly

• VOCABULARY– (CS) understands the importance of acquiring

an extensive receptive and expressive (passive and active) vocabulary for communication and expression in various contexts and language functions

– (PS) acquires, studies and uses English vocabulary words appropriately in relevant contents

• LISTENING COMPREHENSION– (CS) understands that listening is the

receptive skills in the oral mode that allows one comprehend what is heard using ones skills and background knowledge (schema)

– (PS) activates prior knowledge conceptually related to text and establishes a purpose for listening/ reading

– be self-aware as they discuss and analyze text to create new meanings and modify old knowledge

– responds to literary texts through the appreciation of literary devices and an understanding of story grammar

– recalls/locates information from expository texts and uses this information for discussion or written production

• READING COMPREHENSION– schema and prior knowledge– strategies– narrative text– informational text

– (CS) understands that reading is psycolinguistic guessing game which utilizes visual and non-visual information in order to confirm, modify, and monitor one's comprehension

• ATTITUDE– (CS) understands the significance of

interpreting the social meaning of the choice on linguistic varieties and using language with the appropriate social meaning for the communication

– (PS) demonstrates a love for reading stories and confidence in performing literacy-related activities/tasks

• STUDY SKILLS– (CS) understands that there are an array of

study skills, which may tackle the process of organising and taking new information and retaining information

– (PS) chooses and utilizes discrete techniques (general or specific) and applies them all or most fields of study

Attitude,not aptitudedetermineS yourALTITUDE

--Zig Ziglar

Senior High School Core Curriculum SubjectsOral CommunicationReading and WritingKomunikasyon at Pananaliksik sa Wika at Kulturang FilipinoPagbasa at Pagsusuri ng Iba’t Ibang Teksto Tungo sa Pananaliksik21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the WorldContemporary Philippine Arts from the RegionsMedia and Information LiteracyGeneral MathematicsStatistics and ProbabilityEarth and Life SciencePhysical ScienceIntroduction to Philosophy of the Human Person / Pambungad sa Pilosopiya ng TaoPhysical Education and HealthPersonal Development / Pansariling KaunlaranUnderstanding Culture, Society, and PoliticsEarth Science (taken instead of Earth and Life Science for those in the STEM Strand)Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction (taken instead of Physical Science for those in the STEM Strand)