Monthly Tutorials of Teacher to Parents: an Intervention to Improve the Reading Literacy of Kindergarten Pupils

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Parents should be eager to engage their children in school in order for them to learn and grow academically. They mold their children to become good citizens before they let them go to the school to learn more. As the old saying goes, teachers impart knowledge to the learners since day one from the very first level of education which is the kindergarten in the Department of Education. The child's attitude depends on how the parents raise them.

METHODS

The universal sampling was used in this research since all of the Kindergarten pupils were respondents of the study or the whole enumeration method was employed. This study also adopted the technical assistance method applied by the teacher as a mentor to another teacher as a mentee. The concept was then given to the parents as a mentee while the Kindergarten teacher as a mentor.

RESULTS

After the implementation of this monthly tutorial reading session to parents, pupils learned the correct names and sounds of the letters and can read syllables through connecting letter sounds. Out of 22 pupils tested during the district Reading evaluation last February 2017 all of them gave the letter names, 21 produce sounds, 8 failed to read the syllables and 9 failed to read CVC. When having the post conference of these three (3) pupils and they were asked why they got the high score in syllables but failed to read the CVC words, they answered that they were nervous when the evaluator called their names and 1 of these pupils answered "I am already tired".

DISCUSSIONS

The average percentage of Kindergarten pupils' reading readiness during the pre-assessment per month without the use of the intervention falls under the Needs Improvement level and the average percentage of Kindergarten pupils' reading readiness during the post assessment per month with the use of the intervention falls under the Advance level. Therefore, there was a significant difference between the pre-assessment and post assessment of Reading readiness of Kindergarten pupils with the use of an intervention which is the Monthly Tutorials of Teacher to Parents.This study is beneficial to the following:PUPILS. The pupils' reading readiness will improve while they are still in the Kindergarten level.PARENTS. The parents have the opportunity to learn the basics of reading which helps boosts their confidence in bringing the knowledge to their children.TEACHERS. This enables the Kindergarten teacher to achieve the competencies of of their daily lesson and the zero non-reader during post reading evaluation.