1. Relative to DepEd Memorandum no. 173, s. 2019 re: Hamon: Bawat Bata Bumabasa, the City Schools Division of Dasmarinas, amidst pandemic happening around the world, is still committed to extend quality learning at home. It continuously aims to elevate reading comprehension of the learners by amplifying its campaign of establishing reading home through project “Every Parent a Reading Teacher Program”.
2. The project aims to:
a. educate the parents on how to be a reading teacher at home; and
b. provide reading materials that can be used by struggling, frustration, instructional, and independent readers
3. Series of videos shall be posted on DepEd Tayo Dasmarinas to teach the parents on how to teach reading at home.
a. Episode 1: The Role of Parents in Reading Development and Importance of Reading at Home
b. Episode 2: Pre-Reading Skills
c. Episode 3: The Big Six of Reading
4. To provide them materials suitable to the needs of the learners, materials were compiled through the help of English Head/Key teachers, reading coordinators, and select supervisors. They can be accessed through https://bit.ly/3bmXdtOreadingmaterials. Available materials as of today are listed below:
a. CVC with sentence
b. Developing Reading Power
c. Selected selections from ABRC
d. Marungko Approach Booklet
e. Pair Drills
f. Fuller Approach
g. Spelling List
h. Word to Sentence
i. Localized Stories
j. DOLCH
k. Reading Passages
l. List of Online References and Applications
5. Moreover, those who want to share materials can email Mr. Noel D. Anciado through noel.anciado@deped.gov.ph.
6. School heads and teachers are requested to encourage parents to be part of this project through their General PTA Officers, alumni association, and barangay officials. Other possible means may be used to disseminate the information.
7. This project shall be continued even after this situation. This Office suggests various activities to make sure that awareness campaign will be intensified:
a. Panayam sa Barangay – A reading task force of each school will visit nearby barangays and conduct symposia and fora.
b. Brigada Basa – inclusion of reading at home information drive in the weeklong Brigada Eskwela activities.
c. Others – school-initiated projects which aim to involve parents in reading
8. For the learners we profess to serve, immediate and wide dissemination of this Memorandum is highly enjoined.
