[OPINION] How can teachers develop a reading habit among learners?

Our students don’t have access to reading materials – the printed ones. It’s time for the department to issue a book that contains nothing but short fiction and poems.

One time, I came across an obsolete book. Produced by the defunct Bureau of Public Schools, it had a quirky, large “Philippine Prose and Poetry’’ printed on its cover.is on the horizon, what if the Department of Education developed a book akin to the one I found at a local library? The new curriculum puts a premium on the development of Filipino students’ integral skills, such as reading comprehension.Our students don’t have access to reading materials – the printed ones.

One reason why a student shuns the idea of reading is that he, along the way, finds it difficult to understand the meaning of a text. That’s why another criterion to consider is readability. The selections to be included in a book must vary from simple to difficult, given the varied abilities of learners.

How can a teacher raise a reader if he himself is not a reader? A student feels the joy of reading if he understands what he reads, and the teacher should not assume that the student achieves it by himself. It’s the teacher’s job to make reading less taxing on the learner’s part. Lots of problems have torpedoed the education department recently, but these problems have not sprung out of nowhere. These are old problems that have worsened because what has been provided is only a band-aid solution.. Though the project’s rationale is to enhance the reading competence of the learners, unfortunately – and ironically – DepEd has not produced reading materials exclusive for it.

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