Best Practices in the Implementation of the Remedial Reading Program

AUTHOR(S)

JENNIFER E. GUIRO RUSSEL V. SANTOS

ABSTRACT

——— — Teaching is the primary concern of every school and the student is the heart of this concern. When the learner does not perform, the teacher applies measures to assist and ensure that no one is left behind. Reading is one of the tasks and measures of a learner’s progress at school. In the desire to implement the remedial reading program in response to the great causes of the Department, we cannot eliminate challenges encountered along the way. Best practices though are employed but feedback revealed that across all schools in the Division of Urdaneta as reported by remedial reading coordinators during the conduct of pre-assessment using the Functional Literacy Assessment Tools (FLAT) we still have grade 1 learners who fall under Below Letter Level. In this study, the best practices for the implementation of the remedial reading program are technology orientation, facilitator approach, assessment combination, and class adaptation. From the best practices employed by the teacher respondents, these are the results that teachers saw during their improvement in the remedial reading program. Activation and engagement are the lived experience result from the learners during the remedial reading program. The following conclusions were drawn from the findings and results of the activities conducted; most of the teachers are new to this reading program yet utilize various materials to provide improvement and development of the learners’ reading skills; teachers are equipped with best practices that cater the needs of the learners in the reading program; learners had shown improvement from the best practices being practiced by the teachers. From the findings and conclusions of this study, the following are recommendations offered: the administrators must send the teachers to seminars and training related to reading programs to further improve the remedial reading programs; the teachers are encouraged to strengthen the best practices and augment these through training attended; Administrators and teachers must provide more activities, materials, and video clips to retain the interest and improvement of the learners; teachers may use the suggested intervention activities to enhance the reading skills of the learners of this present study; future researchers are encouraged to study further topics related to remedial reading and best practices; future researchers are suggested to conduct research related to resource materials that would strengthen the reading skills of the learners. Keywords — Technology Orientation, Facilitators Approach, Assessments Combination, Class Adaptation, Activation Engagement