Project Prize ( Prioritizing Reading Intervention Zonein English): A Toolin Enhancing the Reading Skills of Grade IV Pupils of Santa Cruz Elementary School and its Implication on Their Reading Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Sta. Cruz elementary school is the only central school in the district of Sta. Cruz, Division of Laguna. With a good number of enrollees from kindergarten to garde 6 which accounts to 2775 learners. Poor reading skills has always been a persistent problem of the school that significantly affects their academic performance which evidently prevails in the results of the PHIL IRI English. The result showed that there were 62 non-readers and 628 pupils fell under frustration level.They were given several reading tests to fully validate the results and it consistently showed that pupils have poor reading skills. The alarming result of the PHILI IRI, where majority of the pupils fell under frustration level prompted the school to think of a structured reading program, Project BRIDGE, a CIP project

METHODS

The descriptive method was used. The project will adopt Project BRIDGE in the implementation of the program.

RESULTS

The reposrt of monthly assessment has shown that reading skills of the pupils who undergo the program significantly improved