Effectiveness of the Refurbishing Effective Ways to Achieve Reading Development “Reward” Program as Intervention for Improvement of Non-Readers at Manuel Luis Quezon Elementary School

Abstract

As a measure to upgrade the quality of instruction in our country, DepEd implemented the "No read, No pass" policy. For this reason, it is the aspiration of the prime movers of education to develop all pupils to become good readers in their respective grade level at the end of the school year. Handling nonreaders in order to read and understand better in the lesson is an arduous act, yet; once done with effectiveness and passion, it yielded a great amount of learning success. This action research project was conducted to examine the effectiveness of the R.E.W.A.R.D. program, as reading intervention for the 543 identified non-readers of Manuel Luis Quezon Elementary from Grade I to VI for the school year 2017-2018. A review of solution strategies suggested by the knowledgeable others, combined with the analysis of the problem setting, resulted in the areas of interventions encapsulated in the R.E.W.A.R.D. Program (1) P.O.W.E.R Reward (Pull-out Way to Engage in Reading), every Tuesday and Thursday handled by a Remedial Reading Teacher (2) S.U.P.E. R. Reward (Supervision to Unleash Power in Engagement to Read), every Monday and Wednesday handled by the class advisers. (3) ABNKKBSNPLAko?! (REWARD Monitoring and Evaluation Tool for the REWARD Miles, once a month (4)Development of REWARD Task Group incorporating parental involvement, ongoing development of teachers and community linkages. The pre-experimental one-shot case method was employed in which the treatment was the utilization of the R.E.W.A.R.D. program interventions. Actual teaching observations were implemented to examine the effectiveness and its significant gains to the non-readers. Results of the interventions indicated significant improvements in the reading proficiency of the non-readers. The post reading assessment indicates only 57 of the 543 non-readers remained non-reader from Grade I to VI. Through the process of action learning of R.E.W.A.R.D. program, 89.50% had significant gains in their reading performance.