Page 2 - Flixies Catalogue - English and Afrikaans

FLIXIES
The Flixies stories have been written to address two critical crises:
An environmental crisis
Our planet is in trouble and young readers must be made aware of biodiversity and our responsibility to provide for the quality of life on earth.
Grade 4+
A literacy crisis
We have a generation who do not want to, or cannot read
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In order to develop essential and critical comprehension skills, seven different thinking
skills are introduced and applied systematically throughout the Flixies series. Three consecutive stories are used to teach each of the thinking skills.
The Gradual Release of Responsibility
The teaching strategy used to improve reading comprehension is the gradual release of responsibility
I do, you watch During this process, the
comprehensio strategy is
rst modelled
You do,
I watch
I do, you help then young readers are invited
to help
and then they practise the strategy while the teacher observes
until they are able to apply it spontaneously and in independently.