ISSN: 2782-893X
eISSN: 2799-0664
ISSN: 2782- 893X
The COVID-19 crisis revealed the unpreparedness of education systems, infrastructure, educators and learners for distance learning. Educational leaders planned to adopt modular distance learning modality using the printed modules to bea given to the pupils while learning at home. These self-learning modules were crafted and undergo series of quality assurance. As Grade I teacher, the researcher is hesitant whether this learning materials would help the pupils learn to read as this is the biggest challenges to all teachers. Reading plays an important role in language learning because through reading, the learners can obtain new information and experience. According to (10) reading is a process of comprehending texts to get information in order to make the reader easy to find the world around them. In line with that, reading defined as meaningful interpretation of printed and written verbal symbols (11). While COVID-19 is impacting pupils, teachers had to formulate ways on how to help the low performing pupils to learn how to read. One of the initiatives that Grade I teachers did, is to use the big and small books as supplementary reading materials. With this, the researcher decided to conduct this study in order to evaluate the effectiveness on the utilization of the big and small books to the performance of the Grade I low performing pupils in Reading. It was revealed in this study that there is a significant difference in the pre-test and post-test performances of Grade I low performing pupils. Moreover, it was concluded that utilizing big and small books is effective in improving the reading performance of the pupils.