JOURNEYS is a worktext series designed with the ultimate goal in mind: to let learners apply the language conventions, principles, strategies, and skills in interacting with others, equipping them in whatever field of endeavor they may engage in. Each lessen is learner-centered, following a seamless and integrated approach, where morals and themes are carried from motivational situations and questions on lesson openers, processed and highlighted through discussions and examples of learning competencies, literary pieces, and comprehension questions and activities, and challenged in exercises across different content areas.

As making meaning is the heart of language learning and use, the learning tasks and activities of the books in the series are designed in such a way that learners will have time to reflect on and respond to ideas and information, and that they are provided with sufficient scaffolding enabling them to reach their full cognitive, affective, and psychomotor potentials, and become independent and confident individuals.

The Dynamic Series in MAPEH elementary series adopts the principles embodied in the Department of Education's prescribed K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum that focuses on the learner as a recipient of the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for artistic expression and cultural literacy. Lessons and activities in eacn book are student-centered and are based on a spiral progression of processes, concepts, a skills and grounded in performance-based learning. The books, particularly Music and Art, are designed to ensure effective learning through active participation and performance, creative expression, aesthetic valuation, critical response, and interpretation. The skills that the books aim to develop include reading/analyzing, listening/observing, performing, responding, composing, and creating.

Lessons and activities in Physical Education (PE) support the "Move to learn" principle as the context of physical activity which is viewed as the means for learning, and the "Learn to move" principle that embodies the learning of skills and techniques and the acquisition of understanding that are requisites to participation in a variety of physical activities that include exercise, games, sports, dance, and recreation. The PE books fully implement the concept that fitness and movement education is the core of the K to 12 PE Curriculum.

Finally, lessons and activities in Health focus on the physical, mental, emotional as well as the social, moral, and spiritual dimensions of holistic health. They teach the learners to acquire essential knowledge, attitudes, and skills that are necessary to promote good nutrition, to prevent and control diseases, to prevent substance abuse, to reduce health-related risk behaviors, and to prevent and control injuries with the end-view of maintaining and improving personal, family, community, as well as global health. Whenever possible, develop mentally appropriate, learner-centered teaching approaches are used to teach the lessons in Health Education.

The Dynamic Series in HELE corresponds to the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum prescribed by the Department if Education to develop the knowledge and skills of the learners in the fields of entrepreneurship, information and communications technology, agriculture, home economics, and industrial arts. This series integrates entrepreneurship with all the areas of Home Economics and Livelihood Education. The series also aims to strengthen a wholesome relationship within the family, the community, and the nation.

The lessons and activities in each book are grounded on the concepts, processes, and values necessary for the development of the technological proficiency and entrepreneurial skills of the learners. They are designed to ensure effective learning through active participation and includes projects that will engage the learners and imbibe in them an entrepreneurial spirit to encourage them to put up their own businesses and become productive and responsible individuals, family members, and filipino citizens.

Authors Gee E. Velasquez Cynthia Bulayo-Banzon

BootCamp is a computer series for Grades 1 to 6 learners. The topics in each book are presented using a progressive approach from the most basic to more complicated concepts matching the learners’ readiness while also testing their capability to take on more challenging tasks. This method also ensures that computer proficiency is enhanced on each stage as necessary for application in their other school subjects where the use of computer may be needed, such as for calculations in Math, for creative works in Art, and for research in others.

The series is carefully divided into two categories: the Primary Boot Camp focusing on introduction to the computer and use of applications and the Web, and the Intermediate Boot Camp with more in-depth discussions of applications, digital media, social media, as well as productive and responsible use of the Web. All books are designed to develop the learners’ critical and creative thinking through lessons with clear set objectives and activities that range from conceptual, practical, and situational.

Author Lovelle G. Almazar Coordinator Maria Cecilia C. Santos

Bilang mga guro, lubos ang pagpapahalaga ng mga may-akda ng seryeng BINHI sa pagtatamo ng tama at angkop na edukasyon ng mga batang mag-aaral na Pilipino.

Samantala, isinaalang-alang din sa paghahanda ng bawat level ng serye ang layuning maging katuwang ng mga kapuwa gurong nagtuturo ng Filipino sa pagpupunla ng pundasyon at pagpapayabong ng mga kaalaman, kasanayan, at pagpapahalagang magagamit nang marapat ng isang bata para maging mahalagang bahagi ng kaniyang pamilya, ng lipunang kinabibilangan, at ng Inang Bayan.

Ang pinagyamang edisyon ng Binhi: Wika at Pagbasa ay alinsunod sa pinakabagong K to 12 Gabay Pangkurikulum at Ortograpiyang Pambansa ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. Sa pagbabalangkas nito, unang isinaalang-alang ang mga bagong kalakaran para masinop na mailakip ang dagdag na mga kaalaman at kasanayan sa kabuuan ng bawat level ng serye. Pinanatili ang spiral approach sa dahilang ito ang pinakamabisang pagdulog para sa mga batang mag-aaral sa elementarya na nagsisimula pa lamang sa pagkatuto ng mga aralin sa wika at mga kasanayan sa pagbasa. Tiniyak din na ang mga kasanayan sa pakikinig, pagsasalita, pagbasa, pagsulat, at panonood ay malilinang sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng aklat.

Bagaman ang pangunahing layon sa pagbuo ng seryeng ito ay maging instrumento sa pagkatuto ng mga batang mag-aaral, isinaisip din ng mga may-akda na maging abot-kamay sa mga kaguro ang mga kabatiran at maraming pagsasanay na agarang magagamit sa paghahanda at pagsasakatuparan ng pagtuturo. Makatutulong din sa pagpapagaan ng paghahanda ang paggamit ng Gabay sa Pagtuturo kung saan nakalakip ang mga mungkahing gawain sa pagtuturo ng pinagsanib na wika at pagbasa at ang mga gabay sa pagwawasto ng mga pagsasanay.

Taos ang pag-asa na ang pinagyamang edisyon ng Binhi: Wika at Pagbasa ay makatutulong sa paglinang ng isang buo at ganap na Pilipinong may kapaki-pakinabang na literasi na magagamit sa pagtatamo ng isang matiwasay at magandang kinabukasan. Purihin ang Panginoon!

  May Akda Ester V. Raflores