June 1999 Principal Keith Lord slowly chewed and swallowed an inch-long worm, this is to comply with his promise to the students of Melvin Avenue Elementary School that he would eat a worm if they read 4,000 books and completed 1,200 book reports.
RosamondElementary School students marched out of class chanting ``We will, we will dunk you'' as they prepared to dunk Principal Tim Feickert as a reward for reading. Wearing a Rosamond Elementary School T-shirt and shorts, Feickert perched on a dunk tank. A dunk tank, also known as a dunking booth or dunking machine, is an attraction mainly used in funfairs, fundraisers, and personal parties. Basically, a dunk tank consists of a large tank of water, over which a seat is suspended. seat as pupils threw softballs at a target that, when hit, dropped him into the water. He got dunked by about every third youngster.
Reading is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas. It can be safely say that it is the true backbone of most learning.Academically, reading is the student's gear to cope with his/her studies as the student go up the educational ladder, more reading is required.
Statistics shows that filipino students reading skills increased. Department of Education(DepEd) reported 21.36 percent increase from National Achievement Test(NAT) results from 2006-2009 The 11.67 percentage gains were in all subject areas and pointed to a steady improvement in the primary education of the country’s public school system.
This statistics shows a movement of improvement but a difference from 66.33 mean percentage score from 54.66 in 2006 is rather slow. it is not even close to a "mastery level" the main culprit of student's poor performance according to Dr. Yolanda Quijano, head of the DepEd’s Bureau of Elementary Education is reading problems.
So, how does one increase his/her reading skills to ensure their academic progress?
does the authority or the principals need to eat worms or engage to a water tank dunk?
Increase your reading comprehension and tips on improving your reading skills will be tackled on next post.
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