A truly South African reading instruction programme created to inspire a love of reading in children through lively and entertaining stories.

Vuma provides comprehensive teacher support and guidance, making it a complete solution for teaching and assessing reading.

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A truly South African reading instruction programme created to inspire a love of reading in children through lively and entertaining stories.

Vuma provides comprehensive teacher support and guidance, making it a complete solution for teaching and assessing reading.

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What is Vuma?Pearson is proud to introduce Vuma, our new reading instruction programme with stories that have been developed and written in the mother tongue.

Fun, age-appropriate stories centre around a diverse group of loveable characters to whom all South African children can relate. This finely-levelled reading instruction programme has been specifically developed for teaching and assessing reading in the Foundation Phase.

Each story has been individually developed around the structure and vocabulary of the language for which it was written.

The Vuma Reading Instruction Programme has a number of different resources that work together to offer a comprehensive reading solution. Vuma is currently available for Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sepedi Home Language as well as English First Additional Language.

The core resources are: finely-levelled Readers with stories that

will delight both boys and girls

engaging Workbooks with activities to entrench reading and comprehension skills

comprehensive Teacher’s Guides with detailed guidance, lesson plans and assessments.

Afrikaans English SepediIsiZuluIsiXhosa

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Vuma LevelsThe Vuma Readers are divided into levels from 1 to 12. The number of books at each level gives learners enough practice to consolidate what they have learnt before moving to the next level.

The increase in complexity from one level to the next is very gradual so that learners are always able to experience success and remain motivated to continue reading.

Each level is defined by: the number of words or sentences

types and complexity of language structures and artwork

text features

the predictability of the text.

This should help you to match each learner to the correct level so that they read in order to build their vocabulary, grammatical understanding and, importantly, confidence and enjoyment when reading.

The Home Language Readers include a Starter Level which consists of simple stories without words.

Level 1: 1 word or 2-word phrases per page; strong visual cues. Lots of repetition.

Level 2: 1 – 2 phrases / short sentences per page; strong visual cues. Introduces question sentence structure. Lots of repetition.

Level 3: 1 – 2 longer phrases or sentences per page; strong visual cues. Has question sentences. Lots of repetition.

Level 4: 1 – 2 varied phrases / sentences per page. Has question sentences. Lots of repetition.

Level 5: 1 – 3 sentences per page; strong visual cues. Some direct speech. Lots of repetition.

Level 6: 1 – 4 sentences per page; strong visual cues. Direct speech and past tense. Lots of repetition.

Level 7: 1 paragraph (1 – 5 sentences) per page; strong visual cues. Uses direct speech and past tense. Introduces information-style texts.

Level 8: 1 – 2 short paragraphs; some visual cues on each page. Varied text styles.

Level 9: 1 – 2 short paragraphs; more complex language structures and some visual cues. Varied text styles.

Level 10: 1 – 2 longer paragraphs; more complex language structures and some visual cues. Varied text styles.

Level 11: 2 – 3 paragraphs per page. Limited visual cues. Varied text styles.

Level 12: 2 – 4 paragraphs per page. Limited visual cues. Varied text styles.

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Vuma ReadersEach and every Vuma Reader is bright, beautiful, engaging and tells a story.

Each Reader in the Vuma series has been specially developed to carefully introduce a small number of new reading words to learners.

Learners are provided plenty of opportunities to practise reading these words in other stories. The words that are introduced are high frequency words as well as content or concept words.

Each Reader has: a pre-reading section that provides brief,

simple tips and activities on how to introduce the book to learners before they begin to read.

a list of new words featured at the beginning of the book.

a ‘hidden’ object that has to be ‘found’ on each page – this fun element develops learners’ visual discrimination skills.

closed and open-ended questions about the story for discussion with learners after they have read the book.

Levels 1 – 4 consist of 64 Readers for Home Language

(16 Readers per level) and 32 Readers for English FAL

(8 Readers per level)

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Vuma WorkbooksThe Vuma Workbooks provide learners with practice in a variety of literacy skills, including reading, writing, comprehension, vocabulary development, sentence structure, phonemic awareness and phonics.

Each Workbook consists of a collection of worksheets that provide activities related to the Vuma Readers. There are a minimum of two worksheets for each Reader.

Developed to give learners further reading and comprehension practice to ensure that they:

develop and entrench essential reading and comprehension skills

acquire sight vocabulary

aquire phonic knowledge appropriate to their level of language usage.

Pearson has developed Workbooks for each level of each language.

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Book 5: One, two, threeWorksheet 4

Colour by number

Colour in the bugs. Use the code to choose a colour.

Write the number words to complete the sentence.

O_______, t_______, t_________

Bugs in a tree!

1 – red2 – blue

21English First Additional Language Level 1 Book 6

Book 6: Come and look!Worksheet 1

Complete the words in the speech bubbles. Colour the “come” bricks in the wall orange. Colour the “look” bricks, brown.Trace over the pattern at the top of the wall.

Complete the picture

C__________!

L__________!

look come look

come look come

look come look

come look come

Level 1

Workbook

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Teacher’s GuidesEach Teacher's Guide is developed to provide teachers with comprehensive support on how to teach and assess reading in a fun and effective way.

The Vuma Teacher’s Guides provide Foundation Phase teachers with general guidance and information on how to teach reading.

The Teacher’s Guide provides: fi ve detailed lesson plans for each

Reader that cover group guided reading, paired reading and activities related to the Readers.

information on the purpose and importance of assessment in a reading programme.

a work plan for the term that shows you how to use the Vuma Readers and Workbook as part of your current reading programme.

assessment activities that enable you to monitor and report on learners’ reading for each level.

photocopiable assessment records to keep track of your learners' performance

a section of photocopiable resources.

Teacher’s GuidesVuma

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In addition to the core resources, the Vuma Reading Instruction Programme includes a range of supplementary resources.

These resources will all be available inAfrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sepedi Home Language as well as English First Additional Language.

These support materials include: Big Books for shared reading

Context Cards to develop the learners' sight vocabulary

an Alphabet Frieze to help learners recognise the initial sounds that correspond with the letters in the alphabet

Posters to introduce each of the characters

Audio CDs with professional readings of the stories

an Instructional DVD to help you and your learners get the most out of the Vuma Reading Instruction Programme.

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I can run fast.

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Additional Resources

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Available in 2016Core Resources:Readers

Home Language Starter Level (4 Readers)

Levels 1 – 4 (16 Readers per level)

English First Additional Language Levels 1 – 4 (8 Readers per level)

Big Books

Home Language Starter Level (4 Big Books)

Levels 1 – 4 (16 Big Books per level)

English First Additional Language Levels 1 – 4 (8 Big Books per level)

Workbooks

Home and English First Additional Language Levels 1 – 4 (1 Workbook per level)

An Introduction to Reading with Vuma

Home and English First Additional Language

Lesson Plan and Assessment Packs

Home and English First Additional Language Levels 1 – 4 (1 Lesson Plan and

Assessment Pack per level)

Where is Ninja?

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In the box!

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Vuma Level 2 Reader

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Vuma Starter Level Reader

Additional Resources:Audio Stories on CD

Home and English First Additional Language Levels 1 – 4 (1 CD per level)

Context Cards

Home and English First Additional Language Levels 1 – 4 (1 pack per level)

Alphabet Frieze

Home and English First Additional Language

Posters

Home and English First Additional Language

Instructional DVD

Home and English First Additional Language

Vuma Reading Packs:Grade 1 Teacher's Starter Pack

Grade 1 Classroom Pack

Diva and I live with my granny.with my granny.

I live with my dad.I live with my dad.

I live with my Aunty Sandra and

Uncle Andrew.

I live with my Aunty Sandra and

Uncle Andrew.

We live with our parents and have a treehouse in our

backyard.

We live with our mom and dad and have a dog named

Newton.

We live with our mom and dad and have a dog named

I live with my Aunt Karin.

I live with my Aunt Karin.

I live with my mom, gran and grandpa.

I live with my mom and older sister, Lerato.

I live with my mom and older

A truly South African reading instruction programme created to inspire a love of reading in children through lively and entertaining stories.

Vuma provides comprehensive teacher support and guidance, making it a complete solution for teaching and assessing reading.

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