Project LURC (Levelling Up Reading Comprehension)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

"Reading makes a full man". It opens the gates to wisdom. Therefore, it is the thrust of education to make every child a reader, one who reads and comprehends.

Based on the 2014 PHIL-IRI pretest, there were 51 frustration readers out 81 pupils in English Grade II. This was the reason why SUBAY ELEM. SCHOOL launched the project LURC (Levelling up Reading Comprehension), an intervention program whose primary aim was to raise the reading levels of the said pupils. This was also in response to the call of the Continuous Program of the Division of Rizal.

METHODS

The extensive remedial program among the pupils was religiously conducted for the whole year. Problems were met with the aid of the teacher-made methods; Basic Sight Words (five words a day), words with pictures (vocabulary development) five words a day, sentence sense, big books, partner method (Ate ko, Kuya ko), STAR method (Stop and Read) wherein five minutes before the classes began, the pupils read short stories/sentences assigned by their advisers, class remediation (30 minutes every day, after the class session) and reading time in the DLRC of the school.

RESULTS

The Program revealed a partly successful outcome since the PHIL-IRI posttest for Grade II noted the result of 26 frustration readers. The same courses of action were taken by the CI team and reaped a very good product of five frustration readers.

DISCUSSIONS

This school aimed to implement the program continuously in all grades for a better pupils' performance.