19/02/2024
Magapuy Elementary School Turns Reading More Fun
The Department of Education (DepEd) remains steadfast in its commitment to delivering quality, relevant, inclusive, and responsive basic education. This commitment is further strengthened by the present administration’s Eight-Point Socioeconomic Agenda and the MATATAG Education Agenda to produce competent, job-ready, active, and responsible citizens, equipped with essential competencies and skills for lifelong learning.
In light of these considerations, DepEd shall implement Catch-up Fridays beginning January 12, 2024, across elementary and secondary schools and community learning centers (CLCs) nationwide. All Fridays of January 2024 shall be dedicated to the “Drop Everything and Read” (DEAR) activity and orientation for field officials. It shall also be used as a venue to gather feedback from field implementers on the guidelines of Catch-up Fridays.
Catch-up Fridays is a learning mechanism intended to strengthen the foundational, social, and other relevant skills necessary to actualize the intent of the basic education curriculum. This initiative is integral in the National Reading and Mathematics Programs which are critic subprograms of the NLRP stipulated in DO 13, s. 2023.
Magapuy Elementary School launched Catch-Up Fridays on January 12, 2024 through Teachers and Parents’ Orientation headed by the School Head, Jamestone T. Infanta. He explained the importance of the said activity for the learners.
Teachers prepared their classroom to suit with the needed setting for the Catch-Up Fridays to ensure the effectiveness of the activity. The School Head together with the Master Teacher monitored and checked the needed document to implement the said activity.
Magapuy Elementary School launched Project DEAR through Catch-Up Fridays last January 19, 2024. Different strategies were used by the teachers to make reading more fun. Continuous planning was done by the Teacher-In-Charge, Shiela C. Palagud and all the teaching staff on how to develop LOVE for Reading through making different innovation in teaching reading, peace education, health, values and homeroom guidance. New classroom setting, different games, film viewing, story retelling, acting/role playing, and other strategies increases the attendance of the learners and improved their reading ability with comprehension of the learners.
According to Frederick Douglass, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”