ordered">Situated Practice – Students engage in real listening and reading tasks that connect to their lives, such as reading traditional Filipino folk tales or local stories in both Filipino and English.

Overt Instruction – Teachers explicitly explain how oral language connects to written language, highlighting vocabulary and reading strategies.

Critical Framing – Students reflect on what they hear and read. For instance, they might compare how a story changes when told in Filipino versus English or analyze characters’ choices.

Transformed Practice – Learners take what they’ve learned and use it in new tasks, like writing their own short stories, performing dramatizations, or creating multimedia presentations.

In the Philippine setting, read‑aloud sessions can also support culturally relevant literacy by including local text types—like komiks, local legends (alamat), and oral narratives from barangay elders—which makes listening and reading more engaging for students. Hearing and reading stories in different languages spoken at home (e.g., Cebuano, Ilocano, Filipino) strengthens both oral and print literacy skills in meaningful ways.

By blending oral and written modes, teachers help students become confident speakers, thoughtful listeners, careful readers, and expressive writers. In short, read‑aloud practices in classrooms show how multimodal literacies help learners build bridges between talking, listening, reading, and writing—making literacy learning more dynamic and fun.

References

Linder, R., & Falk‑Ross, F. (2024). Multimodal resources and approaches for teaching young adolescents: A review of the literature. Education Sciences, 14(9), Article 1010. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14091010

Silva, K. M. J., Del Valle, J. M., & Velasco, C. Q. (2023). Read aloud strategy for reading literacy of elementary pupils: Basis for enhancing the reading program. International Journal of Social Science Humanity & Management Research, 02(06), 454–460.

Wikipedia. (n.d.). Multiliteracy. In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 6, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiliteracy

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