Friday, August 6, 2010

Jimmy and the Shy Chicken

This task reflects the child-centeredness of each Reading Intervention Program. Since this young boy’s first language is Filipino, and has yet emerging ESL skills – he was asked to sequence four story-events of a bilingual book. After which, he was given a chance to re-tell the story first in Filipino, and then in English (with guidance).

The following is a transcript of his oral enumeration of the story-events, based on the graphics provided.

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Ang Mahiyaing Manok
(sequencing of events)

In Filipino
Una, si Onyok ay mahiyain na manok. Pangalawa, akala niya pinagtatawanan siya ng mga ibang manok. Pangatlo, kinausap siya ng Mama niya. Pang-huli, marunong na siyang tiktilaok.


In English
First, Onyok is shy. Second, Onyok [thought the others are] laughing [at him]. Third, (Who talked to him?) [his] Mama [talked to him]. And last, Onyok can tiktilaok.

*[text in brackets are prompts that the student repeated, after teacher-modeling]
*(text in parenthesis is a guide question to cue memory retrieval)

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Jimmy is a six year-old boy who is about to enter “big school” as a first grader. He just finished his second program , the components of which are spelling, reading, expressive language and vocabulary development.

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