Project: EBS (ELKONIN Boxes Strategy)

This study sought to determine the importance of effective teaching practices in handling nonreaders through Elkonin Boxes Strategy in teaching reading.Through learning onsets and rimes, the learner learns new words by recognizing similarities between words.The drawback of this approach required extensive memorizing of the onset, rimes, and word family and word patterns.Phonics is important and a great factor in learning how to read as blending sounds is the start of reading simple words.The respondents of the study are the Grade 3 learners of Tuyan Central Elementary School.Continuous Improvement (CI)-basedresearch methodology was employed in this study which follows three (3) stages such as assess, analyze and act.Result of the English Reading Kit Assessment Test, revealed that there was a decrease of 20.80% from 39.28% frustration readers.Therefore the intervention has a good effect towards the increase in reading level of the learners, the PHIL-IRI result indicated that the EBS Strategy implies a decrease of pupils in the frustration level from 67.85% to 45.65%; an increase in instructional level from 20% to 30.02% and increased number of independent readers from 12.15% to 15.33%.There is an increase of the proficiency level of diagnostic pre-test result held last June and the first quarter examination result from 22.69% to52.33%.Interview results from the teachers, pupils and parents disclosed that Elkonin Boxes Strategy lead to positive effect towards enhanced reading performance among learners.