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Title of Innovation: “Creating ART at School: An Advocacy for Struggling Readers”
Innovation Category: Curriculum and Instruction Delivery
Name of Innovator/s: Taya-o ES Faculty
School/Office, District, Division: Taya-o Elementary School/Cauayan 2/ Negros
Occidental
Date of Implementation: SY 2021-2022
Contact No.: 09054396928
Overview
In 2019, the Division of Negros Occidental conducted a reading assessment
identified Cauayan 2 as the district having the most numbered of non-readers and slow
readers. These poor results serve as an indicator that changes to the way teachers
support struggling readers in the classroom and beyond its walls are essential.
Struggling readers require specific skills to be taught to them in order to make gains in
reading. Research in the area of identifying teaching strategies that support struggling
readers in the classroom has highlighted several emergent themes. Increased pupil
engagement results when teachers use strategies such as teacher-led read-alouds and
e-books, and when pupils have choice in what they read. Thus, creating ART or
Assigned Reading Teacher at school can be very beneficial for struggling readers as
well as for the classroom teachers. Teachers are the ones who make a difference in
supporting struggling readers through the use of concise and direct teaching methods.
This advocacy aims to focus only on improving the reading skills of the struggling
readers through effective teaching strategies. In so doing, struggling readers are given
attention and will never be left behind. Moreover, this proposal addresses aspects that
will assist the struggling reader to achieve success. In relevance to the DEPED’s vision,
mission and goals, the pupil’s reading skills are being improve thus giving success in
school as they will allow them to access the breadth of the curriculum and improve their
communication and language skills.
Innovation Description
The idea of creating ART at school is because of the delay in class lesson due
to those who have difficulty in reading. In this case, you can’t ignore them but rather
you have to address them by going back to basic, thus the flow of the lesson is not
continuous and it is very hard and challenging for the classroom teacher. If you would
imagine, how about those average readers who are eager to learn more but because
your attention is already focused on those who can’t read, their eagerness to learn will
be ignored and it will be unfair to them. The assigned reading teacher helps the pupils
read fluently, comprehend what they are reading, train them in phonetics, spelling,
grammar and vocabulary memorization. The assigned reading teacher must conduct an
assessment to learn how to evaluate reading levels and select reading and learning
material to use in class. Must develop lesson plans and activities that meet each pupil’s
individual needs. Must also work with other teachers to help coordinate reading
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materials into their lessons and promote schoolwide literacy program. Eventually,
communicate with parents regarding child’s literacy need and encourage pupils to read
outside of the classroom. As a whole, ART is responsible in teaching younger pupils
how to pronounce words, spell correctly and practice listening skills and older pupils,
might help them master comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. ART might work with
individual pupils or instruct an entire class.
Innovation Statement
Objectives:
a) To help pupils activate and reinforce skills in grammar,
vocabulary, pronunciation and writing.
b) To help them become a better reader.
c) To help learner develop critical thinking skills.
d) To attain grade level proficiency.
e) To help pupils achieve basic and more advanced skills.
f) To help pupils raise their reading comprehension level.
The ultimate goal of ART is to instill a love of reading, provide tools to help
pupils become strategic, independent readers and help them to become
problem solvers even in reading.
Implementation Procedure
A. Process Flow/Framework
Literacy Program Framework
Pre-Reading Level 2
Level 1 Level 3
Phonological and Phonemic Being a Reader
Jump Start Into Reading Reading to Learn
Awareness
Develop an interest and Beginning Comprehension Independent reading
enjoyment of books and reading Advanced comprehension
Recognize whole words through Critical thinking
naming, selecting and matching
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Rhymes, songs, gestures Phonograms Syllables
Word Division
Letter sounds
De-coding
Blending Spelling
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B. Project Management
The innovation is managed through planning and understanding
the idea of this project by the school faculty headed by Mr. Rosvic D.
Abeto, the school head of Taya-o Elementary School and is being
supported by the parents.
C. Timeline
During the pre-implementation, there is a reading assessment,
the lesson plan intervention and the framework that includes pre-
reading, level 1, level 2 and level 3. However, during the implementation
there is already a proper class session of the pupils and the Assigned
Reading Teacher, the reading materials and the lesson plan intervention.
Lastly, post implementation includes the quarterly reading assessment,
pupil’s attendance and the class record.
D. Resource Utilization
In planning this innovation project, ideas are being gathered,
break down and discuss by the school faculty. The necessary reading
materials, reading assessment and lesson plan intervention are critically
developed and carefully planned. The literacy program framework
designed by the [Link] and was simply modified by the
innovators. Through this framework, it builds the reading foundation
where each child learns to read and develop literacy skills at a different
pace. This program is built around the 5 pillars of reading: Phonemic
Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension.
E. Progress Monitoring
This innovation will be implemented on the second quarter of the
school year to give the advisers ample time to know and assess the
reading level of their learners. The assigned reading teacher will have
his/her reading session every Tuesday and Wednesday of the week.
He/she may work with individual learners or in group. Pre-assessment
will be conducted at the end of the first quarter to know who are the
struggling readers to be enrolled in the reading session. Whereas, post
assessment will be conducted at the end of every quarter so that the
assigned reading teacher will know who are in progress or who are still
in need to continue the program. The persons involved in the innovation
is the ART, the classroom teachers, learners as well as parents. The
assigned reading teacher may provide supplementary reading materials
to the parents to follow up reading development at home. The tools that
will be utilize during the implementation are the assessment materials,
reading materials, and the lesson plan innovation.
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Innovation Output/Outcomes
Outputs/Outcomes Beneficiary/ies
(Enumerate the outputs or outcomes (Who benefited the corresponding
produced from this innovation) outputs or outcomes)
Lesson Plan Intervention Pupils
Literacy Program Framework Teachers
Reading materials Parents
Reading Assessment
Sustainability Plan
It is the responsibility of educators to ensure success, regardless
of the various strengths and challenges each individual child brings to
school every day. Now more than ever, elementary schools are
committing time, money and resources to such intervention programs
and instruction in an effort to catch pupils that are at-risk of failing in the
initial years of school. In this age of accountability, educators are
especially stanch in their effort to explore and implement the most
effective, efficient avenues to accelerate the learning of pupils that are
falling behind their peers in reading. As teachers of Taya-o Elementary
School, we firmly believe that this effort will be effective and a success in
providing quality education in terms of reading development of the child.
Our goal is to close the achievement gap that lies between low achieving
readers and non-struggling readers. In sustaining the implementation of
the innovation, there must be a constant monitoring by the teachers and
the school head. Feedbacking also must be a part of the implementation
to analyze ideas and actions to have a best possible solution to perform
better and improve what and where to focus. Improvement to some
reading materials and lesson plan intervention must also be observe to
provide a meaningful teacher-learner interactions and have an effective
learning. For those who struggle to read, there is a risk that the main
purpose of being able to read becomes lost. The desired outcome is that
children not only can read, but want to read. For this reason, reading
needs to be motivating and meaningful. The foreseeable outcome of this
innovation is to lessen or eradicate the number of struggling readers in
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Taya-o Elementary School and to improve the academic outcomes of
our learners.
Prepared by:
(Innovator/s)
Recommending Approval:
(School Head)
Approved:
(District Supervisor)
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