Uplifting the Basic English Literacy

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

In reference to the Department of Education Order No. 44, s. 2018 entitled Guidelines on the School-to-School Partnership and Project Salik-Suri, continuing implementation of its purpose will push for this school year between Mataas Na Burol Elementary School being the Leader School and Hukay Elementary School as the Partner School which both parties agreed in providing a broader responsibility to help elevate the performance of the latter.

METHODS

This action research attempted to use the phonics approach to improve the reading abilities of slow readers and readers-at-risk in Grade III of Hukay Elementary School for the school year 2017-2018.in the Phonics Approach to reading word, recognition is taught by using the grapheme-phoneme association method. A grapheme is the written letter (what you see on paper). A phoneme is a sound that the letter represents (what you hear). Learners are taught the vowels, consonants, and blends. They are then taught to combine the sounds and blend them into words. in this way, the learner read unfamiliar words by using the association of speech sounds with certain letters or groups of letters. The early introduction of a phonics program as part of an overall reading approach has become an almost universal practice in the teaching of reading.

RESULTS

Action research relied chiefly on the results of the different oral reading tests (recognition level) conducted during the period of the program. The descriptive method of research was used in the study to find out the reading performance of the pupils. The data gathered were tabulated, evaluated and analyzed using percentages to identify the reading levels of the pupils. The pre-test and post-test scores of the pupils in word recognition were statistically treated and analyzed using the paired-samples t-test to answer the problems posed in this study.

DISCUSSIONS

Third grade is one of the stages of a pupils' educational growth that is very vital as it a stage of pupils’ development as an individual holistically. Social, personal and academic factors may also affect this stage of their life. in school, third graders must show mastery in reading basic Filipino and English materials such as magazines, newspapers, journals, books, dictionaries, textbooks and the like. An emerging stage of a pupil’s academic growth starts at this moment in their life as well. But we cannot argue the fact that not all pupils have developed the habit of reading and understanding what they were reading.