CHAPTER II

The program in language Education

CURRICULUM EXPECTATION
The language curriculum identifies
the expectation for each grade and
describe the knowledge and skills that
the students are expected to acquire,
demonstrate , apply in their class
work and investigations, on tests, and
in various other activities on which
their achievement is assessed and
evaluated.

TWO SETS OF EXPECTATION

Overall

expectations

Specific

expectations

OVERALL EXPECTATION

Describe in general terms the knowledge and skill

that student are expected to demonstrate by the
end of each grade.
In the language communication, it is an outline
standard sets of knowledge and skills required for
effective listening and speaking, reading and
writing, and viewing and representing
The language curriculum focuses on the
developing the depth, and level of sophistication of
students knowledge and skills associated with
each of these key overall expectation by increasing
the the complexity of the text they work with and
the task they perform over time.

SPECIFIC EXPECTATION
Describe the expected knowledge and skills in greater
detail.
They are group under numbered headings, each of
which indicates the overall expectation to which the
group of specification correspond.
This also reflect the progression in knowledge and
skills from grade to grade through;
1.
The wording of the expectation itself
2.
The example that are given in parentheses in the
expectation
3.
The teacher prompts that may follow the
expectations

STRAND IN THE LANGUAGE

CURRICULUM
Oral communication
Reading
Writing
Media literacy

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Fundamental to the development of
literacy and essential for thinking
and learning.

Listening and speaking skills are

essential for social interaction at
home, at school, and in the
community.

HOW TO DEVELOP ORAL

COMMUNICATION SKILL
student need numerous opportunities to
listen and talk about a range of subject,
including personal interest, school work,
and current affairs.
Engage in brainstorming, discussing
strategies and defending ideas or debating
issues, and offering critiques works produce
by peer group.

THREE OVERALL EXPECTATION IN

ORAL COMMUNICATION STRAND
Student will:
1.

2.

3.

Listen in order to understand and respond

appropriately in a variety of situation for a variety
of purpose;
Use speaking skill and strategies appropriately to
communicate with different audience for a variety
of purpose;
Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners
and speakers, areas for improvement, and the
strategies they found most helpful in oral
communication.

READING
It focuses on developing the knowledge
and skill that will enable student to
become effective readers.
Effective reader is one who not grasps
the ideas communicated in a text but
is able to apply them in new context.
Is a complex process that involves the
application of many strategies before,
during, after.

THINGS TO DO, TO DEVELOP

READING SKILLS
Reader must be able to think clearly, creatively,
and critically about the ideas and information
encountered in the texts in order to understand ,
analyze, and absorb them and them and to
recognize their relevance in other context.
Applying range of comprehension strategies as
they read and by reading a wide variety of texts.
Applying the strategies before, during, after.

DURING;
COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES

Predicting
Visualizing
Summarizing
Monitoring
Questioning
Drawing inference
Identifying
Revising comprehension
Identifying main ideas

CEING SYSTEM

Clues from context or form their understanding

of the language structure and/or letter-sound
relationship.

AFTER READING
Analyze
Synthesize
Make connection
Evaluate
Use other critical and creative thinking skills

PURPOSE WHY WE READ?

To follow direction
To get advice
To build vocabulary
To satisfy curiosity
To research
And personal interest

OVERALL EXPECTATION IN
READING
1. read and demonstrate an understanding of a
variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts,
using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
2. recognize a variety of text form, text feature,
stylistic element and demonstrate understanding of
how they help communicate.
3.Use knowledge of words and cuing systems read
fluently;
4. reflect on and identify their strengths as
readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies
they found most helpful before, during, and after
reading.

WRITING

Provide students with powerful opportunities

to learn about themselves and their connections
to the world.

Through writing student organize their though,

and remember important information, solve
problems, reflect on a widening range of
perspectives, and learn how to communicate
effectively for specific purposes and audiences.
Writing also help student to better understands
their own thoughts and feelings and events in
their lives.

TIPS TO DEVELOP WRITINGS

SKILLS
Student needs to become discipline thinker
Learn to select and organize ideas appropriately
Keep in mind what is the purpose for which they
are writing and audience they are addressing.
Learn how to use standard written forms and
language conventions.

OVERALL EXPECTATION IN
WRITING STRAND
1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and
information to wrote for an intended purpose and
audience;
2. draft and revise their writing, using a variety
of informational, literary, and graphic forms and
stylistic elements appropriate for purpose and
audience
3.use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills
and strategies, and knowledge of language
conventions to correct errors, refine expression,
and present their work effectively;

4.reflect on and identify their strengths as

writers, areas for improvement, and
identify their strategies in writing process.

MEDIA LITERACY

Is the result of studying of art and messaging

of various form of media texts. Media text can
be understood to include any work, object , or
event that communicate meaning to an
audience.

Traditional literacy may be seen to focuses

primarily on the understanding of the word,
Media literacy focuses on the construction of
meaning through the combination of several
media language- images, sounds, graphics
and words.

MEDIA LANGUAGE
Image
Sound
Graphics
Words

HOW TO DEVELOP MEDIA LITERACY

SKILLS
Student should have the opportunities to view,
analyze, discuss a wild variety of media text
and relate them to their own experience.
They should also have opportunities to use
available technologies to create media text of
different types(e.g., computer graphic, cartoon,
graphic designs and layouts, radio plays , short
videos, web pages).

OVERALL EXPECTATION IN MEDIA

LITERACY
1. demonstrate an understanding or variety
of media texts;
2. identify some media forms and explain how
the conventions and techniques associated
with them are use to create meaning;
3. create a variety of media texts for different
purposes and audience, using appropriate
forms, conventions, and techniques;
4. reflect on and identify their strength, areas
for improvement, and the strategies they
found most helpful in understanding and
creating media text.