Catching Up with our DEAR Students

Susana J. Sacatrapos
Principal IV
Tagumpay National High School
Montalban Sub Office
 DepEd Order no. 001, s.2024- Catch Up Fridays
 DepEd Joint Advisory- Catch Up Friday- DEAR
on Jan. 12, 19 & 26
 School Memorandum no. 006 for Jan 12, 19, 26
Catch Up Fridays concentrating on DEAR Activity
What had happened before
the implementation?
Why Subject Teachers (Filipino & English) and
Class Advisers?

What are the reading materials that were ready to

use, available on that day?

Is there a need to review the strategies,

stages/activities on developmental reading for
intervention and enhancement?
Pre- Implementation
- Immediately conducted a Collaborative Meeting on January 10, 2024 with Teachers of
English and Filipino, SGHs, GLCs, Class Advisers
- Prepared an Action Plan on the Implementation of Catch Up Fridays- DEAR for January
12, 19 and 20
- Checked the availability of reading materials in the school library, utilization of teacher-
made reading assessment, donated books from a partner publishing house (PSICOM
Publishing House), periodicals and other reading books
- School Memo No. 6 was released on January 10, 2024
SGHs/ English and Filipino Dept Chairs- Monitoring and Evaluation
GLCs/ ICT Coordinator- solicit Feedback from students and teachers (online/ in person)

Guiding Principle: “All teachers are reading teachers”

Prompt: Low Performance of Fil students in reading comprehension in 2018 PISA
Issues and Concerns- Jan. 12, 2024

 Shortage of time to prepare for Q2 PT

- Jan 12- 2hrs./30 min. (10 min. for preparation)
- English, Filipino and HGP Classes the rest of the subjects will be taught as planned
 Insufficient reading materials that are aligned with the competencies per grade level
- Reproduction of contextualized reading materials based on needs per grade
level for Jan. 19 and 26
 Students are interested in reading short stories
- Localized and edited short stories originally written by SSP students were
reproduced
 Students easily get bored of reading long stories
- Employ segmental reading
 Actual Implementation
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The Monitoring Tool
Recent Accomplishments
 Integrated reading activities in all subject areas, utilization of CBI
-English, Filipino, Math and AP- Reading Enhancement/
Intervention
- Science, MAPEH, EsP, TLE- Integrative Teaching
 Capacitated all teachers during InSeT and LAC on Catch Up Fridays w/c
shall start in February 2024 onwards
 Execute 4 demo teachings on reading enhancement/ intervention and
integrative process
 Produced LPs for Reading Enhancement/ Intervention and Integrative
Teaching
 Revised the Catch Up Plan to incorporate effective actions
 The DEAR Strategy
(Develop, Enhance, Align, Read)
D- evelop reading materials through peer contributions.
E- nhance the materials through teacher collaboration (ICT and English)
A- lign the materials to the reading program objectives using technology
R- ead through activities and capture evidence progress
 Learners’ Profile
Enrolment, SY 2023-2024
Regular- 2,368 SSP- 96 OHSP-21

Reading Levels English Filipino

(Based on Phil IRI in August 2023)

Non- Reader 10 0
Frustration 526 351

Instructional 583 747

Independent 656 1117

 Ways Forward
 Reproduction of contextualized teacher- made reading assessment materials
based on competencies per grade level thru Project BIBO
 Conduct of FGD after Friday to solicit feedback and come up with a solution
 Support the school’s reading program enhancement program through
technology- based solution initiated by the ICT Coordinator in collaboration with
the English Department
 Continue crafting teacher-made modules for reading intervention following the
format of ADIDAS-A to ensure development of reading competencies
 Sustain the school’s reading banner- Project REACH for Non- Readers and
students under Frustration Level
TA from our PSDS
Focus Group Discussions/ Collaborative
Meetings
Orientation with Teachers
Sample Class Programs with Catch Up
Fridays
Teaching Demonstrations
“If there’s a will,
there’s always a
way.”
By: George Herbert