Proposed Technological Aided Materials in Enhancing Reading Ability of Lemery Pilot Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This paper addresses the impact of technology assisted reading materials in improving the reading skills of grade one learners. The poor reading skills specifically their phonological awareness is very evident and are contributing to their academic performances. By utilizing the proposed technological aided materials, the reading ability of the learners can be enhanced. And since we are dealing with the 21st century learners, being adaptive to the environment, different technology is formulated to aid the teacher in the teaching-learning process. Technology enhanced classroom instructions can benefit at-risk learners when engaging them in interactive learning with teachers and technology is used to explore and create, instead of to drill learners. Technology serves as the key to make learning easier and more likely that learners will engage with the process to produce the highest-quality in education that they can.

METHODS

The study is descriptive in nature, using questionnaires mainly in identifying the difficulties encountered by the Grade one pupils, who are the respondents of the study. Inventory of technologies and software in the classroom setting were utilized.

RESULTS

Technology enhanced classroom instruction can benefit at-risk learners when engaging them in interactive learning with teachers and technology used to explore and create, instead of to drill learners. Technology serves as the key to make learning easier and makes it more likely that learners will engage with the process to produce the highest-quality in education that they can.

DISCUSSIONS

The poor reading skills specifically their phonological awareness is very evident and are contributing to their academic performance. By utilizing the proposed technological aided material, the reading abilities of the Grade I learners are enhanced. A strong curriculum with technology that helps students clearly hear individual phonemes and match them to frequent spellings, teachers can effectively engage a student's senses in the reading process. They will find it more interesting to read if teachers implement the use of technology. And there are countless reasons why technology is a key aspect of learning in the schools.