Reading is learning. It is the most important skill that a child must have. Reading plays a vital role in the lives of our children because it’s a huge factor in child’s progress in school and in the future. Reading can be achieved in both school and home but school is the biggest contributor in the learning of the students most especially the instruction given by the educator.
Reading is not just an important tool for learning, but it is the basis for all aspects of learning (Oyetunde, 1997).
Learning styles theorist have identified another form of learning styles to be reading styles. ‘’Reading styles has been by Carbo (1980b, 1982) as an individual’s learning style when he or she reads, and can include environmental, emotional, sociological, physiological, and psychological stimuli” (Sudzina, 1993, p. 2)
Research shows that students who have extreme reading problems in early elementary grades are likely to continue to have difficulties in reading throughout their academic career (Austin et al., 2017). Hence, reading must be already taught in their early grade it will serve as the foundation of learning and teachers must be well-equipped on providing instructions that will encouraged all to engage themselves because student engagement in all reading activities will help to break reading gap.
Oyetunde (2002) stated that teachers need to know the teaching strategies for teaching beginning reading and comprehension skills. There is in need for certain reading programs that will help teachers to be equipped with the reading objectives, lessons, contents, strategies, and assessment techniques. It will help the teachers to inculcate and develop beginning and appropriate reading skills in pupils. The nature of the reading process should understand by the teachers because instructional activities are usually influenced by the nature of what is taught.
This is supported by DepEd Order No. 12, series of 2015, which provides that the foundation of learning is in a child's early language literacy and numeracy skills. According to DepEd, these skills do not develop naturally and, thus, require careful planning and instruction. In order for children to develop the habits of reading, speaking, writing, and counting, there should be access to age-appropriate and culturally – sensitive materials.
Reading interventions that are provided to students in primary grades proclaim higher average impacts on reading outcomes than interventions that began for students in higher grades (Wanzek et al.,2010)
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