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  GUIDELINES

  Dear Teachers, Parents and Caregivers,

  WHY THE 3EzSeries

  The 3Ez stand for Educate, Equip and Empower! This Series has supplementary readers with a goal to educate, equip and empower children and young people with basic knowledge and skills around: Child Rights, Protection and Participation; Peace and Social Cohesion; Health, HIV and AIDS; and Values and Civic Awareness — while at the same time increasing their literacy outcomes.

  The short stories fill the existing gap in availability of local content reading materials, especially, around the four themes. Authors of 3EzSeries believe that children and young people have an important role to play in bringing about social change in their homes, schools and communities — if educated, equipped and empowered.

  HOW TO USE THE 3EzSeries

  Help your child /class to read correctly, fluently and with understanding. Enhance understanding of the story and its messages by:

  • engaging your child/class in answering and asking questions about the story;

  • discussing pictures in the story book; telling meanings of new words and expressions; and

  • relating incidents in the story with local experiences at home, school and in the community.

  These and other activities help your child/ class to pay attention to important information in the story and to what takes place around them.

  Questions can be asked before, during and after reading the story. There are many ways to ask questions. Ask questions that help your child/class to predict, explain, summarise and connect.

  Before reading the book: Ask predict questions. Request the child/class to look at the title and the pictures on the cover page. Ask questions such as: “Who can read the title of this book?” What do you see in the picture?” What is taking place in the picture?” What do you think this book will be about?” Ask more predict questions during the story. Do this after reading a few pages. Ask questions such as: What do you think will happen next? What is so and so likely to do?

  While reading the book: Ask explain questions. Do this after reading each page or a few pages. Ask your child / class how and why a character did something — or how and why a particular event occurred.

  After reading the book: Ask summarize questions. Usually, 3-5 questions are sufficient. The 3EzSeries provides questions which can be asked after reading each of the story books. The questions are found at the end of each story. Conduct other activities such as asking your child/class to:

  • retell the story in the proper order using own words;

  • describe the main events of the story; debate related issues;

  • and act and enjoy some selected fun.

   Ask connect questions: Do this by asking your child/class:

  • if they have had a similar experience to the one in the story;

  • what they would have done if they were some of the characters in the story and why.

  Furthermore, engage your child/class in a discussion: to identify undesired practices which need to be discouraged and stopped; and good practices that could be promoted. Ask them to suggest how this could be done; and the role they could play. Support them to develop and implement a work plan to do what they have chosen to do.

  Get more supplementary readers for your child/class from the 3EzSeries.