IMPORTANCE OF READING

1. The Power
of Reading:
engaging students to read
and assessing their
difficulties

2. Objectives:
✦ To share the significance and the
impact of reading to the secondary
students
✦ To show a data on the rank level of
Filipino students in terms of
reading comprehension
✦ To show some ways in order to
assess the reading difficulty of
students
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3. I. The significance
and impact of reading
to secondary students
Regular reading improves brain
connectivity, increase vocabulary and
comprehension, empowers you to
empathize with other people.
Reading is great fun for many
people, but it also has many benefits for
your mental health in the form of
thinking and understanding. (R. Stanborough,
2019)

4. By concentrating on the words and
the storyline, it stimulates your brain and
cognitive functions. This particular
stimulation can help sharpen your mind,
especially the part of the brain that is
responsible for concentration and critical
analysis. (R. Stanborough, 2019)
Reading sharpens this part of the
brain much like you would sharpen a knife.
This sharpening of the mind will eventually
heighten your focus when concentrating on
something important. (R. Stanborough, 2019)

5. Philippines is lowest in
reading comprehension
among 79 countries
PHILIPPINES
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✦Philippines scored lowest in reading comprehension in the 2018 Programme for
International Student Assesment (PISA) (Philstar Global, 2019)

6. “Reading proficiency is essential for
a wide variety of human activities
– from folowing the instructions in
a manual; to finding out the who,
what, when, where, and why of an
event; to communicating with
others for a specific purpose or
transaction,” the summary of the
PISA 2018 results reads (Philstar Global, 2019)
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7. ✦In the Philippines, ‘boys’ and ‘girls’
performances in reading, both
ranked lowest among PISA-
participating countries. (Philstar Global,
2019)
✦Filipino students obtained an
avergae score of 340 points in
Overall Reading Literacy, which was
significantly lower than the OECD
average of 487 points. (Philippines
Information, 2019)
✦The Philippines shared lowest
results with the Dominican Republic.
Whereas, China and Singapore
performers scored the highest.
(Philippines Information, 2019)
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8. A teacher could determine the student’s patterns
of difficulty by the important components such as
phonemic awareness, word decoding, fluent text
reading, vocabulary, and listening
comprehension (National Reading Panel, 2000)
Specific Word
Reading
Difficulties
(SWRD)
Mixed Reading
Difficulties
(MRD)
Specific Reading
Comprehension
Difficulties
(SRCD)
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II. Common Types of Reading Problems
and How to help Children who have them
(L. Spear-Swerling)

9. Specific Word
Reading
Difficulties
(SWRD)
INTERVENTION:
✦ample
opportunities to
apply decoding
skills in oral text
reading, with
teacher feedback.
Mixed Reading
Difficulties
(MRD)
INTERVENTION:
✦Multi-
component
interventions may
be especially
useful.
Specific Reading
Comprehension
Difficulties
(SRCD)
INTERVENTION:
✦Explicit
systematic
intervention
targeting specific
comprehension
weaknesses.
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II. Common Types of Reading Problems
and How to help Children who have them
(L. Spear-Swerling)

10. III. Early Reading Assesment: A
guiding tool for instruction
Reading Rockets, WETA Public Broadcasting (2021)
PURPOSE:
1. To provide teachers with
information on what skills
students have and not
mastered
2. To monitor students progress
3. To guide teacher instruction
4. To demonstrate the
effectiveness of instruction
5. To provide teachers with
information on how
instruction can be improved.
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11. Assessment examples for
specific areas of reading
Reading Rockets, WETA Public Broadcasting (2021)
1. Letter Knowledge: the ability
to associate sounds with letters
*Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early
Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
2. Phonemic Awareness: the
ability to hear and manipulate
sounds in words *Comprehensive
Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP)
3. Decoding: the process of using
lettersound correspondences to
recognize words
4. Reading comprehension: the
process of understanding the
meaning of text *Degrees of Reading
Power (DRP)
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12. What can a
student do?
“ Develop a passion for learning. If you do,
you will never cease to grow.”- Anthony J.
D’Angelo
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13. 1. Read carefully and deliberately
2. Re-read for mistakes and content
3. Be patient with unfamiliar words
5. Read aloud
6. Take Notes
7. Trace your place
8. Take breaks
IV. Some ways for students to solve
reading difficulties:
(This is also advised for people who are suffering from Dyslexia) (P. Osborne)
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14. I. The significance and impact of reading to secondary students
https://www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-reading-books#:~:text=Research%20shows%20that%20regular%20reading,to%20empathize%20with%20other%20people
https://www.bestpracticeinhr.com/why-is-reading-important-the-11-benefits-of-books/
Philippines is lowest in reading comprehension among 79 countries
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/12/03/1974002/philippines-lowest-reading-comprehension-among-79-countries
https://www.in-philippines.com/pisa-2018-results-philippines
II. Common Types of Reading Problems and How to help Children who have them
https://www.readingrockets.org/article/common-types-reading-problems-and-how-help-children-who-have-
them#:~:text=This%20article%20reviews%20research%20on,difficulties%2C%20and%20mixed%20reading%20difficulties
III. Early Reading Assesment: A guiding tool for instruction
https://www.readingrockets.org/article/early-reading-assessment-guiding-tool-instruction
IV. Some ways for students to solve reading difficulties
https://www.hdsb.ca/our-board/Pages/Get%20Involved/Parent%20Involvement%20Committee%20%28PIC%29/workshops-2017/What-is-
a-Learning-Disability.pdf
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15. Team Presentation
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Mary Joy Corocoto
BSED-ENGLISH student
“Reading is a way on how
we make our own universe”
Sheryl Devillena
BSED-ENGLISH student
“Never stop learning because
life never stops teaching”
Karen Rinchon
BSED-ENGLISH student
“Reading is purposeful, and
we must live on purpose”
Andrea Charisse Sapinit
BSED-ENGLISH student
“Learning is a treasure that follows
its owner everywhere”