Extensive Reading Assistance to Struggling Readers Program: a Proposal
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region III
Division of Aurora
District of Dipaculao
TOYTOYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
I. Title: Extensive Reading Assistance to Struggling Readers Program
II. Background and Rationale
The Every Child A Reader Program (ECARP) is a national program that addresses the thrust of the Department of Education (DepEd) to make every child a reader at his/her grade level. It is designed to equip elementary pupils with strategic reading and writing skills to make them independent young readers and writers. ECARP is implemented through the following components: Reading Recovery (RR), Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) and Philippine Word Lists in English (PWLE). (DepEd Order No. 70, s. 2011) It is expected that the pupils in the primary grade levels have phonetic mastery and oral fluency in accordance with the implementation of mother tongue based-multilingual education, and the intermediate grade levels had acquired oral reading comprehension and fluency.
However, Phil-IRI results in Filipino Oral Reading show that out of 63 primary pupils: 25.4% are non-readers, 52.38% are frustrated readers; and, out of 58 intermediate pupils: 27.59% are frustrated readers. Poor result is also manifested in English Oral Reading wherein 25.4% are non-readers and 65.08% are frustrated readers in primary level; and, 81.03% are frustrated readers in the intermediate level.
The teachers of Toytoyan Elementary School collectively agreed that the pupils need immediate reading intervention and/or remediation to improve their reading performance. Since the teachers aren’t trained on the Reading Recovery nor the school has provision of PWLE, it is decided that the DepEd initiated programs such as Drop Everything and Read (DEAR), Big Brother, Big Sister/Kaklase Ko, Sagot Ko/Shared Reading, Intensified Remedial Reading, Five Words A Week (FWAW)/A Paragraph A Day (APAD) be implemented; hence, digesting the programs be
Department of Education
Region III
Division of Aurora
District of Dipaculao
TOYTOYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
I. Title: Extensive Reading Assistance to Struggling Readers Program
II. Background and Rationale
The Every Child A Reader Program (ECARP) is a national program that addresses the thrust of the Department of Education (DepEd) to make every child a reader at his/her grade level. It is designed to equip elementary pupils with strategic reading and writing skills to make them independent young readers and writers. ECARP is implemented through the following components: Reading Recovery (RR), Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) and Philippine Word Lists in English (PWLE). (DepEd Order No. 70, s. 2011) It is expected that the pupils in the primary grade levels have phonetic mastery and oral fluency in accordance with the implementation of mother tongue based-multilingual education, and the intermediate grade levels had acquired oral reading comprehension and fluency.
However, Phil-IRI results in Filipino Oral Reading show that out of 63 primary pupils: 25.4% are non-readers, 52.38% are frustrated readers; and, out of 58 intermediate pupils: 27.59% are frustrated readers. Poor result is also manifested in English Oral Reading wherein 25.4% are non-readers and 65.08% are frustrated readers in primary level; and, 81.03% are frustrated readers in the intermediate level.
The teachers of Toytoyan Elementary School collectively agreed that the pupils need immediate reading intervention and/or remediation to improve their reading performance. Since the teachers aren’t trained on the Reading Recovery nor the school has provision of PWLE, it is decided that the DepEd initiated programs such as Drop Everything and Read (DEAR), Big Brother, Big Sister/Kaklase Ko, Sagot Ko/Shared Reading, Intensified Remedial Reading, Five Words A Week (FWAW)/A Paragraph A Day (APAD) be implemented; hence, digesting the programs be