The Implementation of Early Language Literacy and Numercay Program For Kindergarten Pupils and its Impact On Pupils’ Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Early language literacy and numeracy are two essential skill areas that children need to develop during the early childhood period. These are also necessary building blocks for knowledge in other areas, and they appear to be related to one another. These perhaps are some of the reasons why the Department of Education put into consideration the need for the educational institutions to implement Department of Education Order No. 12, series 2015 which talks about the Early Language, Literacy, and Numeracy Program. The study was conducted to examine the effect of the implementation of Early Language Literacy and Numeracy on Kindergarten pupils of Padre Valerio Malabanan Memorial School.

METHODS

In this study, a qualitative method was used to measure the level of achievement of pupils. The demonstrated skills of the pupils were recorded by the teacher every day. The teacher prepared a record sheet to track the performance progress of every pupil. Kindergarten pupils were assessed during the First Quarter through the use of assessment tool provided by the Department of Education. These students were given developmentally appropriate materials to help them develop their language literacy and numeracy skills.

RESULTS

The Language and Literacy Skills result indicates that there was a huge increase of Consistent learners from 5% to 69%. This also shows that 88% or 50 kindergarten pupils have improved in the language and literacy skills. The Numeracy Skills of Kindergarten pupils’ result, on the other hand, indicates that there was an enormous improvement of Consistent learners from 9% to 84%. This also shows that 94% or 54 kindergarten pupils have improved their Numeracy skills. The researcher was able to develop activity sheets to improve the pupils’ reading and speaking skills, a self-made story book to motivate learners to read, instructional materials such as number fishing game, number and alphabet cards and game boards and worksheets for individual assessments.

DISCUSSIONS

Only seven pupils remained in the Beginning level for Language and Literacy Skills and three pupils for the Numeracy Skills. The teacher in the next level should identify who among the learners are in the Beginning level to continue with the intervention until they reach the desired level of learning. The innovative and developmentally appropriate practices/materials used by the kindergarten pupils helped them improve from the Beginning level to the next higher level. The Early Language Literacy and Numeracy Program supports the need of kindergarten pupils to initially understand the concept through varied manipulative activities.