NATIONAL

READING
PROGRAM
Why do we read?
 for pleasure
 to enhance thinking abilities
 to learn
 What happen to our
readers?
• the Philippines ranked lowest in
reading comprehension and second
lowest in science and mathematics in
2018 PISA Program for International
Student Assessment, which tested 15
year old across 79 countries
 What happen to our
readers?
• results of the 2019 Southeast Asia Primary
learning Metrics(SEA-PLM) showed that
27% of Filipino students in grade 5 were
only able to recognize single words, while
only 10% developed enough reading skills
to properly transition to high school. A
high percentage of Filipino students were
also in the lowest rank for mathematical
and writing literacy
 What happen to our
readers?
• according to a World Bank report
in 2022, nine out of 10 or 91
percent of Filipino children were
struggling to read simple texts by
age 10 or the late primary age
Learning Gaps
“what the learners are
expected to have learned
versus what they have
learned up to that point”
 How to address the
Learning Gaps?
DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2023
ADOPTION OF THE NATIONAL
LEARNING RECOVERY
PROGRAM IN THE
DEPERTMENT OF EDUCATION
issued on July 3, 2023
 National Reading
Program
• It promotes literacy development
from key stages 1 to 3.
• It will have two tiers: a core
reading program and a
supplemental reading program.
 National Reading
Program
• It will be held at the end of the school
year and is sustained in the regular
school year.
• Gears to solidify the existing reading
programs being implemented in the
school and field offices
Bawat Bata Bumabasa
(3B) 2019
• Underscores the six elements
of reading-oral language,
phonological awareness,
phonics, vocabulary, fluency
and comprehension
Every Child A Reader
Program (ECARP)
• Provides a yearlong apprenticeship
program to teachers to help them become
“independent problem solvers” of the
literacy problems in their respective
schools
• A national program that addresses
the thrusts of DepEd to make every
Filipino child a reader at his/her own level
 Catch-up Fridays
• Starts on January 12, 2024
• Implemented across all elementary,
secondary and community learning centers
nationwide
• Venue for (DEAR) Drop Everything and Read
Program
• a learning mechanism intended to
strengthen the foundational, social, and
other relevant skills necessary to actualize
the intent of the basic education curriculum
 Goal as a reading
teacher:
• To help students succeed in the regular
educational meeting
• To help students attain grade level proficiency
• To help students achieve basic and more advanced
skills
• To help students show progress toward meeting
the desired outcomes of their grade level
• To help students raise their reading
comprehension level
“BOOKS ARE A UNIQUELY PORTABLE
MAGIC.”
Stephen King
Marevel P. Magtibay
Teacher III
Pagsangahan NHS