The Effectiveness of Pre -School Education on the Development of Reading Readiness among Grade One Pupils in Tanauan City Division: Basis for an Action Plan
Keywords:
attempted, collated, perceived, concurred, ascertained, crucialAbstract
INTRODUCTION
Educators like me have concerned about the problem surrounding school failures which are caused by a failure in reading. Children may struggle with reading for several reasons, including limited experience with books, speech and hearing problems, and poor phonemic awareness. The incidence of failure in reading during the primary grades is due to lack of reading readiness. The study was focused on the development of their reading skills among grade 1 pupil involving the following: readiness skills, methods, and techniques used and the development of reading skills
METHODS
Descriptive method research was used. The researcher attempted to come up with the data take collected from the responses of the respondents, research of the teachers was collated and applied the statistical treatment, analyzed and was given interpretations
RESULTS
The findings stated that the level of development among grade one pupil regarding reading skills as perceived by the teachers and school heads in terms of motor coordination, word coordination, visual discrimination, and auditory discrimination are fully developed. The school heads and teachers concurred that the techniques and methods in developing reading were very successful. There is also a significant relationship between the level of development of reading skills and utilization of methods and techniques in developing reading skills
DISCUSSIONS
The school head and teacher respondents both perceived motor coordination, visual coordination, visual discrimination, and auditory discrimination. The extent of the effectiveness of the teachers' utilization of methods and techniques in developing the reading skills of Grade 1 pupils is very successful.
Grade one pupils are merely starting their academic life and teaching them to read is very crucial in this stage of their lives. It is recommended that research-based strategies on how to acquire reading should be used so that they can truly develop the skill.
