Targeted Literacy Instruction:
Foundations on literacy instruction by looking
at educational trends and practices
Geomel P. Jetonzo
Brigada Pagbasa Program Author & Director
Reflection:
If you could choose only three topics to teach,
which ones would you select to most
effectively help our learners achieve their
prescribed reading proficiency skills? Please
discuss your choices within your group and
share them with the larger group.
Photos: CTTO
A snapshot of education in the Philippines
Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics
(SEA-PLM 2019)
Mean: 288 points - Band 3
• Typical Filipino Grade 5 students can read a range of
texts fluently and begin to engage with their meaning.
• They can locate prominent details in everyday texts
and connect related information where it is obvious
and there is minimal competing information.
• They are typically able to make simple inferences from
prominent information.
Photos: CTTO
A snapshot of education in the Philippines
HOW DOES SEA-PLM ASSESS READING LITERACY?
Band Description of what students can typically do
Band 6 and above Understand texts with familiar structures and
(317 and above) manage competing information
Band 5
Make connections to understand key ideas
(304 to less than 317)
Band 4
Understand simple texts
(289 to less than 304)
Band 3 Read a range of everyday texts fluently and begin
(274 to less than 289) to engage with their meaning
Band 2 and below Identify relationships between words and their
(less than 274) meanings
A snapshot of education in the Philippines
HOW DOES SEA-PLM ASSESS READING LITERACY?
• Reading Literacy refers to understanding, using, and responding to a
range of written texts to meet the personal, societal, economic, and civic
needs
What are the arising issues in education significant to the primary grades that have been
heightened because of the pandemic?
According to the PISA 2018 full report, the
Philippines sees a strong relationship
between students' socio-economic
status and his or her performance in
school.
Source: https://www.rappler.com/world/global-affairs/china-outclasses-west-key-
education-survey
Photos: CTTO
What we should do?
“What’s the most
important thing
students have to do
or know?”
Reflection:
Which topics do you believe should be
prioritized to ensure that learners master the
foundational skills needed for reading? Please
discuss your choices within your group and
share them with the larger group?
Photos: CTTO
What we should do?
The Brigada Pagbasa Program Cycle Mapping of
Learners and
Coordination
with BP
Learning
Facilitators
Monitoring, Implement
Reporting Reading /
and Literacy Skills
Evaluation Asessment
Reading
Remediations
Materials
Implement Schedule
Planning for
reading and
literacy building reading
interventions to remediation Logistical
children activities Needs
14
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Volunteers
Training of Literacy Mapping of struggling
Orientation including
September Volunteer Sign Up PTA Officers on
Community – Led
Volunteers on reading
assessment Beginning
learners using
Functional Literacy
Reading ( 5 Days ) Assessment Tool
Literacy Project
Planning for Implement reading and literacy
Implement
October reading
remediation
Reading / Literacy
Skills Assessment
building interventions to children
activities ( Twice a week )
Project Mentoring and Monitoring
Implement reading and
Post – Assessment Project Evaluation
November literacy building
for the 1st Cycle Conference
interventions to children
January 2nd Cycle of Community Catch Up Program
Literacy Development Program Cycle
The child progresses
from Full Refresher
level to Grade Ready
Use the Literacy Level
Assessment
Tool to group Use the Literacy
the child into Assessment Tool
the correct to inform
Literacy Club decisions about The child receives
level. next steps: additional support.
The child attends
the Catch-Up
Literacy Club
level that meets The child exits the
his/her learning Catch- Up
needs. programme.
( 16 Sessions )
Define it in your own words
Is reading natural to us?
We need to learn it.
We get better if we do it regularly.
Swimming
“Learning to speak is a natural process for children, but
learning to read is not. Reading needs to be taught
explicitly. Children need to learn the different sounds in
spoken language and be able to connect this sounds to
written letter and make meaning out of print.”
- Science of Reading
“We Human Beings were never born to read; we
invented reading and then had to teach it to every
new generation”
- Mary Ann Wolf
Language Reading
Decoding Comprehension Comprehension
Gogh and Tunmer,1988
Language Reading
Decoding X Comprehension
= Comprehension
Reading is multiplicative
1 X 0 = 0
0 X 1 = 0
1 X 1 = 1
Gogh and Tunmer,1988
“Reading instruction builds upon oral language. A child's success in
reading is partly dependent on his or her mastery of the language
in which he or she will learn to read. If a child's mastery of the oral
language is weak, progress in reading will be slow and difficult.
Young children at about six years old are ready to learn to read
because they have fulfilled one of the pre---requisites for learning
to read: an almost adult mastery of their language”
(Gudschinsky, 1979)
“Play and learning are like the two wings
of a butterfly--one cannot exist
without the other.”
- Carla Rinaldi, President, Reggio Children
Ang mga batang
marunong
bumasa ay malaya.
- Geomel P. Jetonzo
Maraming Salamat!
