Basa Pilipinas

Basa Pilipinas Support to DepEd’s

MTB-MLE Policy Reform

March 7, 2018

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About Basa Pilipinas: Jan 2013 to July 2018

• DepEd-assigned mother tongues: Ilocano and Sinugbuanong Binisaya

– Region 1: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La

Union and San Fernando City

– Region 7: Cebu, Bohol, Mandaue and

Tagbilaran City

• Direct implementation coverage

included 8 divisions, 3,029 schools

• DepEd:

– Adopted Basa-produced Grade 1

English and Filipino Teacher Guides

nationwide

– Procured Basa-produced leveled

readers

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Context of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual

Education (MTB-MLE) Policy

GRADE 1 GRADE 2 GRADE 3

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4Mother Tongue Reading/Writing and Language of Instruction for All Subjects

Filipino Language Oral Language Reading/Writing

English Language Oral Language Reading/Writing

• The official language of instruction (LOI) remains the MT through Grade 3

• This shifts by Grade 4:

• English as the LOI for Math and Science

• Filipino for other content subjects

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Supporting Activities and Materials

Intermediate Results

Overall GoalImproved reading skills of

1.3 million early grade students

Improved reading

instruction

Revised Teacher Guides (G1-3)

Multi-grade Outlines

Teacher Training,

LAC Support

Improved reading delivery

systems

Advocacy,

Literacy-focused instructional supervision

Improved access to quality reading

materials

Leveled readers,

Read-aloud books,

Classroom libraries

Basa Pilipinas supports its partner school divisions

in the implementation of DepEd’s K-3 language arts

curriculum and the MTB-MLE policy.

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Revised Teacher’s Guides (RTGs)

• Compilation of lessons that teachers

implement in class

• Designed based on DepEd CGs and

progression of skills across languages

• Activities in the RTGs anchored to the

Read Alouds (Grades 1-2),

Listening Stories (Grade 3) and

Leveled Readers (Grades 1-3)

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Leveled Readers in MT (Grade 1 and Grade 2)

✓ Developed based on text gradient features and guidelines

✓ Help learners practice, apply and increase their reading skills

✓ Build on familiar oral language, sentence patterns, pictures and context

✓ Some titles have two versions to suit groups of learners’ different abilities

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Grade 2 Leveled Reader in Mother Tongue

(Ilokano)

She teaches me Mathematics

when we aren’t busy at the

store.

It is so easy for Grandmother

to give change to her

customers.

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Read-aloud books (2 Mother Tongues)

• Commercially published, authentic children’s literature, translated into

the relevant MTs

• Springboards for teaching various competencies in MT instruction

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Kindergarten Big Books (2 Mother Tongues)

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Kindergarten Learner’s Material

Basa:

• Assisted DepEd in creating a

revised Learner’s Material

“mother document” that could

be adapted and contextualized

into the mother tongues used

across the country

• Developed contextualized

versions of this Learner’s

Material for its two assigned

MTs: Ilokano and Sinugbuanong

Binisaya

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Facilitating the use of oral language skills as

foundation for reading and writing

• Daily instructional routines across language subjects always

include oral language development activities

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Bridging across Languages

What I want to

learn in Filipino

or English

What I know

in my home

language

Bridging is a specific,

structured

instructional moment

when learners transfer

knowledge from one

language to another. It

is using everything you

know about one

language to learn

another language.

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Basa-developed resources support bridging

across languages.

• Revised Teacher Guides with “Bridging Notes” to teachers

• Trigger videos for school-based teacher continuous professional

development sessions (called Learning Action Cells or LACs)

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Basa-developed resources support bridging. (video screen shots)

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MTB-MLE materials also promote gender

fairness and inclusion.

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Sustainability: Supporting

MTB-MLE and Literacy

✓ Basa Pilipinas has provided its partner schools

with at least 1.4 million units of mother

tongue leveled readers, read-aloud books, and

Kindergarten Big Books.

✓ DepEd will print and distribute the Ilokano

and Sinugbuanong Binisaya Kindergarten

Learner’s Material to all schools using these

languages in SY2018-19.

✓ Basa’s leveled readers have been adopted as

official materials for all DepEd multigrade

classes, and uploaded to the DepEd’s Learning

Resource Portal to be accessed and used by

teachers nationwide.

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Thank you!

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