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‘CATCH-UP FRIDAYS’ STARTS JANUARY
DepEd to introduce reading program
to boost literacy
By: Jane Bautista - Reporter / @janebautistaINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:55 AM November 22, 2023
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pupils of the Esteban Abada Elementary School in Quezon City her children’s book “Ang Kaibigan” on Tuesday,
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MANILA, Philippines — Starting Jan. 12, 2024, the Department of Education
(DepEd) will implement a reading program in all public schools as part of its
initiatives to improve the literacy skills of elementary and high school TAGS: Catch-up Fridays, Department of
students. Education, Literacy, National Reading
Month, reading program, Sara Duterte
“All learners from Kinder to Grade 12 shall use the time to read books,
articles, and other reading materials based on their interest,” Vice President
and Education Secretary Sara Duterte said on Tuesday, adding that they
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In a chance interview at Esteban Abada Elementary School in Quezon City
during a program for National Reading Month, she told reporters the
specific guidelines for the program called “Catch-up Fridays” would be
released next month.
According to Duterte, the DepEd curriculum and teaching office would “find
a way” to fit all the regular lessons throughout Mondays to Thursdays so
that Fridays could be devoted solely to reading, in addition to health, values,
and “peace education.”
The last subject, a new feature of the revised K-10 curriculum, “holds a very
special place in my heart,” she said earlier.
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Students
Jan 13, 2024 who are already literate will be taught critical thinking and
analysis skills. If they are equipped with these skills as well, they will be
instructed to “write a book [or an] essay” instead, she said.
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Children’s book
At the event, Duterte also launched a children’s book she wrote titled, “Ang
Kaibigan (The Friend),” a short story about a kind and compassionate
parrot who helps an owl rebuild her nest after a typhoon.
“She lost all her friends but there was one who came back and helped her.
That’s the lesson in the book, about friendship and kindness,” she said,
adding that her first book was inspired by the Filipino youth.
Duterte read the book to 10 Grade 3 and 4 students of the school who each
received a signed copy.
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Catch-up Fridays, part of DepEd’s learning recovery program, stemmed
from Duterte’s directive to innovate the agency’s approach to addressing
learning losses.
According to a World Bank (WB) report in 2022, nine out of 10 or 91 percent
of Filipino children were still struggling to read simple texts by age 10 or the
late primary age.
This made the Philippines one of the countries with the highest rates of
“learning poverty” in the East Asia and Pacific region and among lower-
middle-income economies, the Washington-based lender said in a brief
dated June 2022.
‘Not really good’
The WB defined learning poverty as being unable to read and understand
short age-appropriate texts by the age of 10, or between Grades 4 and 5
under the country’s K–12 educational system.
The United Nations Children’s Fund also said in an April 2022 report that 85
percent of Filipino schoolchildren were struggling with reading simple
texts. The long school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the
country were a contributing factor, it pointed out.
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In the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa) conducted
by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Filipino
students aged 15 scored the lowest in reading comprehension with an
average score of 340 points, way below the survey average of 487 points.
With the Pisa 2022 results coming out in two weeks, Duterte reiterated that
DepEd was not expecting good results, saying, “We’ve already had two Pisa
results but our efforts did not show good scores in the assessment of the
kids.”
“Let’s see if we can observe changes after we do [Catch-up Fridays],” she
said, adding that the program would run until 2028, or until the end of her
term.
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“We are seeing that the quality of education is not really good and we are
going to start with teaching students how to read. There are a lot of
nonreaders and slow readers so we need to give them one day where they
will do nothing but practice and learn how to read,” Duterte said.
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TzuPaeng_TzuPutin_TzuPaking Nov 22
sakripisyo lang ang puhunan at kailangan ni vp inday kahit walang CIF
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Ray Advanta TzuPaeng_Tzu… Nov 22
Maski naman ginamit pa ang daang milyones na CIF sa loob lamang ng
11days,wala namang nabalitang anumang improvement sa kakayahan ng mga
bata sa pagbasa.
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Ray Advanta Nov 22
Math should come first so that the children will know even a little of how things
costs and what sacks upon sacks of money can buy or pay for.
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Ga Go Nov 22
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Kung di alam ni inday ang gagawin sa deped at edukasyon, makinig sya sa mga
eksperto at sundin ang mga ito. Gawin lang nya na accountable ang mga eksperto
kuno sa mga ipagagawa, pag palpak, pugot ulo, parang drug lord, pag walang benta
o entrega ang mga galamay, tumba.
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DAMAGE CONTROL NA SI VP SARAH hahahaha....VERY OBVIOUS SHE WILL RUN FOR
PRESIDENT in the next election.
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Lala Sandones Nov 22
LS
When we started to "tagalize" English shows,
we strted to make our children "bobo".
the Philippines is still being seen as the No. 1
English speaking country in Asia. Soon we will
lose this spot to South Korea. Koreans know that
to get ahed in the world, English must be used.
Filipino-miklitants and ultra nationalists
are pushing Tagalog. ha, ha, ha!
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Keef Riffhard Nov 22
Are schools now forced to buy Greedy Sara`s book ?
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Mangga Nov 22
M
Ano ba yan? Sa napakaraming mga pwedeng ipabasang mahuhuhusay na libro na
isinulat ng mga matatalinong tao para sa Grade 3 at 4 students, yung Sec. of
Education na walang karanasan sa education e sumulat ng isang short story na
pambata para yun ang basahin nila? At may autograph pa niya? Jus ko day!
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