By COLEEN MONTEREAL-ESTRELLON
(Principal 1, BAGONG SILANG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL City of Ilagan, Isabela)
LITERACY acquisition is based on complex cognitive, social and instructional factors. For some children, it is easy to internalize the alphabetic principle because they have experienced many literary-related activities that often include parent modeling and scaffolding of reading behaviors.
Children who are slow in reading or the so-called at risk children have significantly fewer opportunities to engage in meaningful literary-related experiences and are less likely to develop auto-matic decoding skills.
The intervention has focused on knowing and developing the mastery skills in the following domains: Reading Comprehension, Reading Level and Reading Speed. Their level of mastery af-fects their readiness to go to the next grade level. It prompted the researcher to conduct this study to follow up the improvement of the domains of literacy in English.
The researcher has thought of designing a reading intervention that would address the reading difficulties of the grade VI pupils which she named “12:00 o’clock Habit, an intervention that aims to provide students an opportunity to set reading-related goals.
This reading intervention is crafted to address the needs of the respondents and to be implemented differently in a way that focuses on the problem met by grades VI pupils along reading skills. To achieve this intervention, two activities shall be done by the pupils: Reading Time which shall be done thrice a week followed by Reading Challenge which will assess their reading skills using Phil-IRI tool. Reading Time is a 30-minute reading time twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday) at 12:30 to 1:00 in the afternoon.
The proponent/teachers/advisers will perform the following activities: One, A short story will be flashed using the LCD projector. If projector is not available, the story should be printed in a chart. The teacher will read first the story with correct expression while the pupils are listening and looking at the story. After reading the story, all the pupils will read it together, then read it by two’s, and then individually. This may take for 10 minutes.
Second, pupils will do “Let’s Understand the Story” by answering the questions related to the story. This activity will develop their comprehension skills. This may take 5-10 minutes; Next to do is “Let’s read with accuracy and fluency”, by giving unfamiliar or difficult words for the pupils to spell-out.
The last activity will be “Let’s Enhance our Vocabularies” wherein pupils will use the spelled – out vocabularies in simple sentences.
The 12:00 O’clock Habit is an assessment of learners’ comprehension, level and speed. The teacher will check their answers right away and record them for tracking progress purposes. Eve-ry Friday before classes start in the afternoon, the researcher track the learners who got the highest score during the conduct of the intervention and give awards/certificates for recognition. The objectives are to improve the reading level of grade VI learners in English; to enhance the vocabulary skills of the pupils in English; to develop the reading comprehension of grade VI pupils, and to address the reading difficulties of the learners.
The activities include utilizing the 12:00 O’clock Reading Habit: A Tool through reproduction of reading materials and implementation of oral reading by the teacher and the pupils to enhance the Reading skills of Grade VI pupils of Ilagan Northwest District particularly 10 Elementary Schools in Cluster 3 of the Division of the City of Ilagan; do the comprehension check-up by giving questions for the pupils to answer; spelling bee to test the pupils’ accuracy; sentence construction, and other reading activities such as Sight Words Bingo, Road Trip Bingo, Letter Roll Reading, Name a word, The Classroom key, Spelling Task Card, Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe, and Word Work Choices.
Among the tasks include providing the needs on reading instruction of pupils by utilizing 12:00 O’clock Reading Habit program and assessed pupils reading improvement in written and oral using Phil-IRI.
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