Narrative Report

District Skills Enhancement Training for Grades I and II Teachers in

Teaching Reading and Writing and Assessment

Davao City Special School

June 18, 2011

NARRATIVE REPORT

Talomo District of Davao City initiated a Skills Enhancement Training for Grades I and II Teachers in Teaching and Writing and Assessment.  This training specifically aimed to equip teachers with the necessary techniques and strategies in teaching reading and writing and to orient teachers with some assessment strategies that would help them determine the skills that need to be developed in each pupil. 

The training had two major topics, namely:

1. Literacy Techniques
2. Assessment Strategies in Reading and Writing

The following assessment strategies were tackled during the sessions:

1. Concepts About Print (CAP)
2. Letter Identification
3. Word Reading
4. Writing Vocabulary

e.   Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words

The participants were able to demonstrate the above-mentioned assessment strategies that made them fully understood how the conduct of each assessment strategy should go.

Dr. Mary Jeanne Aldeguer, the Region XI Reading Recovery Tutor, was invited as a resource speaker about Literacy Techniques.  She tackled about Reading Recovery that included some from Reading Recovery research-based techniques that teachers could use in their respective classrooms.

Mrs. Rosebell B. Narciso, the District Reading Coordinator of Talomo  and at the same time the Reading Recovery Teacher of Catalunan Grande, Davao City tackled the Concepts About Print (CAP) using the Assessment Booklet she had designed entitled “The Lost Pencil”.  The following tests under CAP were tackled in her session: 

1. Orientation of book
2. Concept that print, not picture, carries the message
3. Directional rules
4. Moves left to right on any line
5. Return sweep
6. Word-by-word pointing
7. Concept of first and last
8. Inversion of picture
9. Response to inverted print
10. Line sequence
11. A left page is read before a right page
12. Word sequence
13. Letter order
14. Re-ordering of letters within a word
15. Meaning of a question mark
16. Punctuation
17. Capital and lower case letters
18. Words that contain the same letters in a different order
19. Letter concepts
20. Word concept
21. First and last letter concepts
22. Capital letter concepts

On the otherhand, Mrs. Romalia A. Banta, a reading recovery teacher of Catalunan Grande Elementary School presented the topics Letter Identification, Word Reading, Writing Vocabulary and Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words.  She also shared some of the good writing and reading practices that she is utilizing in her classroom.

In the afternoon session, the participants were able to demonstrate how to conduct the different strategies and assessment strategies that were discussed in the morning.

The participants, in their impression of the training during the closing program, said, that the training was very beneficial on their part as Grades I and II Teachers because they can really use them in their respective classrooms.  The school principals who were also present were very glad to have the training conducted and they are looking forward to seeing a difference in the teaching styles of the teachers who have undergone such.

Attached are some documents in connection with the training such as letter to the Regional Director, Schedule of Activities, Attendance Sheet and the documentations.

Documentations

Dr. Mary Jeanne Aldeguer introduced Reading Recovery

Mrs. Rosebell Narciso, Reading Recovery teacher of CGES tackled some of the Reading Recovery Techniques

Participants are busy preparing for the demonstration

          

ROSEBELL B. NARCISO

District English Coordinator