by: Mark Cayabyab

A teacher at Malinta Elementary School facilitates an incoming grade 3's reading examinations while her student-teacher assistant from the education department of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela readies another child for the test on the program's culmination activity, May 30.

by: Michael Sangil

An incoming grade 6 student at Pio Valenzuela Elementary School reads through a selection prescribed by the instructional material provided by the the Summer Reading Camp.

by: Mark Cayabyab

The Summer Reading Camp was held in all 39 public elementary schools in the city to help the 16,151 non-readers and frustrated readers among third and sixth graders become independent readers

by: Mark Cayabyab

The education bureau defines non-readers as those who fail at the basic reading skill of word recognition, while frustrated readers are those who can recognize words but have a hard time comprehending passages. Those could recognize words and comprehend but only with an instructor’s aid are called instructional readers. Independent readers are those who have mastered both skills.

by: Mark Cayabyab

The post-test that capped the Summer Reading Camp yielded a total of 6,591 instructional readers, or 42.4 %; and 2, 472 frustrated readers; or 15.9 %. One pupil, a third grader, has been found to be a non-reader.

by: Mark Cayabyab

The Summer Reading Program is part of the city government’s 360-Degree Educational Investment Plan, which seeks to bolster the local educational system by building more classrooms, training teachers, conducting feeding programs, and enlisting parents’ active involvement in students’ learning.

by: Mark Cayabyab

A student at Malinta Elementary School whizzing through a reading exercise. A report by the DepEd Division Office released June 11 shows that a total of 6,448 third and sixth graders – 41.5 % of the 15,546 school children who took the post-test at the end of the program – have become independent readers after going to the 22-day Summer Reading Camp (SRC) from May 5 to 30.