Effectiveness of the Contextualized Reading Puzzles in the Reading Performance of the Kindergarten Pupils

AUTHOR(S)

Perse A. Calaycay

ABSTRACT

The development of literacy skills is dependent on the learning materials used by the teacher in the teaching-learning process. Teachers should use relevant, interactive, and manipulative learning resources to achieve positive learning outcomes. In improving the reading performance of the pupils, especially in the kindergarten, teachers must be creative and resourceful in crafting interactive, manipulative, colorful and relevant instructional materials. Contextualizing of materials also counts because pupils are familiar, and this will aid them in understanding the concept and meaning of such words for they experience and see the materials available in the community. Contextualized reading puzzles are the intervention provided by the researcher as learning support materials in teaching literacy skills. And based on the result of the pre-test and post-test conducted before and after the utilization of contextualized reading puzzles, it was found out that it is effective. Thus, this study revealed a significant difference in the pre-test and posttest performances of the kindergarten pupils before and after the utilization of contextualized reading puzzles in teaching literacy skills. Hence, it is relevant to provide the necessary instructional materials to the pupils to make learning happen in the class. Kindergarten pupils can best learn the lessons if the materials used in teaching ang interactive, manipulative, colorful and relevant to the topic or lesson conveyed.