“Learning to Read Exercises”: It's Effect on Kindergarten Learners for the SY 2022-2023

“Successful reading experiences can counter the feeling of failure;” Day and Bamford (2000). This study is conducted to know whether the workbook material “Mga Pagsasanay sa Pagkatutong Bumasa”, would assist in improving the reading performance of the kindergarten learners in letter name knowledge, letter sound knowledge, syllable recognition and word recognition. Researchers used the one group pre-test post-test design to determine the effect of the learning resource material to the 18 kindergarten learners. The Mean Percentage Score (MPS) were used to assess the pre and post assessment result, and Wilcoxon signed rank test to find out if there were difference in pupils’ performances in the pre-test and in the post test. The study finds out that the learners’ level of mastery in reading before the intervention is “low mastery” which means that “the learners cannot identify letter names and sounds and cannot recognize syllables and words”. The MPS of the learners increased after the intervention. The pre-assessment and post-assessment of the learners had a significant difference. The difference percentage result suggested that the workbook used in the study is effective and that the used of the workbook material is recommended to use in kindergarten to improve the learner’s performance in reading.