Reading is the most important phase in the 4 Macro skills which needs to be given important emphasis in every learner. Having a low reading performance really affects the child’s learning condition.

                        Teachers should manifest different reading Intervention to cope with and uplift the learner’s reading ability. One of the best reading of approaches is Marungco Approach. The program of Marungco instruction is the direct teaching of a set of letter-sound relationship. The set includes the major sound relationship of both consonant and vowels.

                        Effective Programs of Marungco . . .

• Helps teacher explicitly and systematically instruct students in how to relate letters and sounds, how to break spoken words into sounds, and how to blend sounds to form words

• Helps students understand why they are learning the relationships between letters and sounds
• Help students apply their knowledge of sound as they read words, sentence, and text
• Helps students apply what they learn about sounds and letter to their own writing
• Can be adapted to the needs of individual students, based on assessment

By: LAURA A. ARAGON | MT – I | St. Francis Elementary school (Bacong) | Limay, Bataan