READING & LEARNING MATERIALS

Resource for developing graded reading materials for MTB-MLE
Suggestions for planning, developing, illustrating, editing, translating and evaluating graded reading materials for MTB-MLE programs. 

Writing a Stage 1 story
Process for creating Stage 1 stories for children who are just learning to read in their first language (L1).

Planning mother tongue-based education programs in minority language communities
See Chapter 7: Literature Development.

MTB ML Resource Kit. Including the excluded: Promoting multilingual Education UNESCO Principle Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, 2018.

See sections on developing student reading materials in Books 2, 3, 4 and 5. 

Examples of MTB MLE student materials

Getting ready to read and write
A short reusable pre-reading and pre-writing book for children.

I Wonder Where the Water Is
A Stage 1 Big Book for young children.

The man and the snake
A Stage 1 Big Book originally developed for children in the highlands of  Papua New Guinea.

L’Homme et le serpent
A Stage 1 Big Book for young children - The Man and the Snake. (French) 

Tetum Alphabet Song
Video of the song used to introduce children to the Tetum alphabet. Used with permission from the Ministry of Education, Timor-Leste. 

Grades 3 & 4 Transfer book: Tetum to Portuguese
Step by step process used to guide students to use their knowledge of Tetum literacy to begin reading Portuguese. Used with permission from the Ministry of Education, Timor-Leste. 

Grade 5 Student’s language book, Timor Leste
Lessons and activities designed to expand students’ knowledge of Tetum, the school L1. Used with permission from the Ministry of Education, Timor-Leste.

Grade 1 Math Activity Book for LIBTRALO in Liberia
Developed for LIBTRALO’S Liberian Languages and English Multilingual Education (LLEME) program. The activities in this book help young students achieve the MOE competencies for Grade 1 Mathematics. (See the LLEME Grade 1 Curriculum & Teacher's Guide on the Curriculum Development page.) The activities, developed by Martie Tracy of SIL International, are based on her Math Activity Pages-Early Primary Grades resources. 

See Math Activity Pages - Early Primary Grades to create your own early primary Math Activity Book.