Project ARMs

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Department of Education Order No. 14 Series of 2018 states the Policy Guidelines on the administration of the revised Philippine informal reading inventory (PHIL IRI). Presently, the PHIL-IRI result of the Grade III pupils is the highest in terms of struggling readers. For the last three years, it was shown by the data that struggling readers from Grade III gradually decreased for a year about 5.68% but after abruptly increased by 11.24 %. The team had conducted another assessment in reading and proved that there is indeed a need to do a project to further help the pupils in terms of reading. This reflection led the CI team to originate Project ARMs (Aided Reading Materials).

METHODS

This study used a descriptive method to know the factors affecting the poor reading habit of the learners. The researchers had a dialogue with the concerned teacher, reviewing and analyzing of reading materials given to Grade III pupils and conducted some home visitation to some of the respondents

RESULTS

Eight out of fourteen pupils are struggling readers in Grade III. The factors seen for this are pupils' lack of interest, pupils' absenteeism, fear of reading, traditional reading materials, lack of interest, the materials are not suited to the level of the learners, no follow up from the parents. With these, the researcher uses the following as aid to increase the reading performance of the learners,Aided reading materials suited to the level of the learners (power point presentation, attractive and readable tarpaulin, colorful flash cards, phonetic video clips, reading sheets) counseling the pupils about the importance of reading, and home visitation. And after using the different method the result showed that there is an increase of 54.28 in the MPS of Post Test given to 14 struggling readers of Grade 3 pupils. And with the help of Project ARMS, only three out of fourteen struggling readers belong to reading level.

DISCUSSIONS

The study originated due to the fact that for the last three years the reading performance of Grade three pupils of the school year 2016-2017 decreased. The researchers want to know the root of this so they decided to have a study/ project which they entitled project Arms (Aided Reading Materials).