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This program is being implemented in Pines City National
High school to improve the reading comprehension of students and to instill the
love for reading. It gives students time to read what they want to read, share
what they have read, and receive the support they need for further reading
explorations and reflections. Daily reading sessions last for 10 minutes. They
will have a conference with their English teachers as soon as they had finished
reading the book, to share what they have understood. A daily DEARtime project
provides students with much more than a just-sit-there-and-read experience
since, during their English subject the teacher is able to evaluate the
students’ progress in reading and comprehension. It gives the English teacher a
structured time to touch base with each student over a period of time, assess
improvement, and target instruction. To measure students’ oral reading speed
and accuracy, teachers will do the procedure that uses regular classroom texts
to determine the number of words that students can read correctly in one
minute. To obtain a words-correct-per-minute (WCPM) score, students are
assessed individually as they read aloud for one minute from an unpracticed
passage of text. All teachers implement this program but only English teachers
can measure students’ improvement.
The theory about literacy instruction and learning; they
think that Students learn best in a community of learners, in a safe
environment, and when they are being guided by teachers’ instructions and of
course independent practice. This Theory about the daily reading program where
students select their own readings and share their reactions to the texts with
others in the learning community will help them to become competent in the
future.
This program is being practiced in other western countries
not only by students who are in the classroom but also by people who have little
free time to relax. Pines City national High school used the diffusion approach
in order to implement this program, teachers got the instructions/message from
the person who initiated the DEARtime program, and explain it to their
respective advisory classes which will be followed up and monitored by the English
teachers and students will accept this program for their development.
On the other hand, some teachers think that this program is
not useful for students; they say that 10 minutes will not be enough for
students to develop their reading habit and because of that students’
improvement will take some time.
