EFFECTIVE TEACHING PRACTICES IN HANDLING NON-READERS (KEY IJP************267)

• Lovely Jane Maceda

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe study determined the effective teaching practices in handling non-readers of Sirawan National High School, Toril, Davao City. This seeks to answer the following objectives: describe the adjustments, effective strategies, and scaffolds utilized by teachers in handling nonreaders; analyze the teaching reading efficiency of nonreaders using effective teaching reading strategies; and find relationship of non-readers reading efficiency and reading teachers reading adjustments, strategies and scaffolds. Five public school teachers were selected as primary subjects, who were interviewed in handling nonreaders in the areas of adjustments, strategies, and reading scaffolds while non-readers of grades 9 and 10 participated in the study. Handling nonreaders in order to read and understand better in the lesson is an arduous act, yet; once done with effectiveness and passion, it yielded a great amount of learning success. Effective teaching practices in handling nonreaders comprised the use of teachers adjustments, strategies, and scaffolds to establish reading mastery, exposing them to letter sounds, short stories, and the use of follow-up. Keywords: Adjustments, strategies, scaffolds, non-readers, efficiency, interviews