Improving the Mastery Level in Recognizing Upper and Lower Case Letters through the GAILE Activity

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Five-year-old should be a fountain of information and be confident about their ability to impart it. Their experiences define their world and teach them more than any book. Give plenty of toys and games. All these allow them to produce an imaginary world in which they are in charge. (Cronan1997) The study entitled "Improving the Mastery Level in Recognizing Upper and Lower Case Letter through GAILE (Games Applied In order to Learn Easily) Activity aims to determine the effectiveness of the said activity of identified Kindergarten pupils. Bingcongan Integrated School has 40pupils in Kindergarten. It was found out that 8 pupils were identified that can hardly recognize upper and lower case letters.

METHODS

GAILE (Games Applied In order to Learn Easily) is an activity designed to improve the mastery level of identified Kindergarten Pupils who are poor in recognizing upper and lower case letters. GAILE Activity is a Nine-Day Session. The three letters of the alphabet are introduced in every session. Each session is administered fifteen minutes after class dismissal. There are three common games applied in this activity namely; "Lupa, Langit, Letra", "Tagu-taguan Tayo ng Letra" and "Barter Tayo ng Letra".

RESULTS

Eight pupils are identified low in mastery level in recognizing upper and lower case letters before introducing GAILE Activity. After implementing the intervention there is an increase of pupils with mastery in recognizing letters.

DISCUSSIONS

There is an increase of pupil's mastery level through regular remedial classes in an enjoyable setting. In the conduct of the GAILE Activity, the researcher found out the effectiveness of the intervention hence the pupils give their utmost participation. Upon the implementation of this research, the researcher, in the long run, had thought of considering this as the most effective and unique method of curing the arising problem of the pupil's performance in the classroom day by day classes. Hopefully, if given the chance, this venture in the field of teaching could be a helpful tool and worth benchmarking for and be a contributing factor in producing quality pupils.