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Michael’s College
College of Education

ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM IN ENGLISH

Introduction

Reading is a skill many people take for granted, but the act of reading and properly comprehending a

text is a complex and interactive process. It requires several different brain functions to work together and

most often requires one to puzzle through multiple layers of context and meaning. Reading enables students

to generate ideas based from what they got from the text. It helps you to discover new things by enabling you

to educate yourself in any area of life you are interested in and to do your own research and thinking and it

also helps develop the mind and imagination and the creative side of a person.

Rationale:

The proposed Enhancement Program in Reading Comprehension was based from their level of

comprehension in reading. The enhancement program caters the students under the grade level of 10 who

have an appallingly low level of reading comprehension and so there is a need to enhance their ability to

understand texts. The enhancement program is intended for at least 1 semester. The program is composed of

4 sessions for each quarter according to the teacher’s preference. The entire program is divided into 3 parts;

(1) Objectives (2) Content and Activities (3) Discovery Task/Individual Enrichment. This aims to create an

outline in teaching literature applying the Dynamic Learning Instruction.

General Objective:

The primary goal of this program is to enhance student’s reading comprehension with different literary

texts and activities to strengthen their understanding of the texts. In addition, it is aimed to develop the

students’ independent learning and critical thinking skills. At the end of the program, the students are

expected to have mastered the content of the literature in all forms.

Schedule Topic Objectives Activities/Strategies Persons Evaluatio

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1st Saturday ● Cupid and ● Discover ● Character Analysis Students

of June Psyche by personal ● Pair-Share-Repeat
Edith challenges Activity
● Rationalize
Hamilton ● Buzz Sessions
Ideas
● Vocabulary ● Discovery Task:
Spinner - Reflective Essay
● Identifying - Comprehensive
Facts and Analysis (Journal
Details Type)

4th Saturday ● The Cask of ● Build up ● Informal Debate: Agree Students

of June Amontillado Defences or Disagree?
by Edgar ● Understand ● CSI Classroom
Allan Poe the Text Investigation and
● The Perfect through a Murder Board Activity
Murder by Debate ● Context Clues
Jeffrey ● Develop Challenge
Archer Vocabulary ● Discovery Task:
● Mystery - Compare and
Word Contrast (in a form
● Analyzing of a table)
the Text
● Identifying
 Facts and
Details
● Context
Clues

1st ● Invictus by ● Make ● Brainstorming (Look for Teacher

Saturday of William Inferences the Figures of Speech) and
July Ernest ● Connect ● Panel Discussions Students
Henley Texts to ● Discovery Task:
● Figures of Real-life
Speech Experiences - Poem Analysis
● Making ● Identify (Invictus)
Inference Figures of
Speech
● Create a
Poem

4th Saturday ● Text: A ● Create a ● Short Skit (Essence of Students

of July Summer Review of the story)
Solstice by the essence ● Peer review writing
Nick of the story
task (Essay about the
Joaquin ● Construct
● Guide for Text moral lesson of the
Text Analysis story)
Analysis ● Deliver a ● Group Q and A
● Plot of the short skit ● Discovery Task:
Story about the - Create a Text
essence of Analysis about the
the story
Story

1st Quarter
Exam
1st Saturday ● Text: The ● Identify the ● Socratic Soccer Ball Teacher &
of August Ghost in Elements of a Activity Students
Chains by short story ● Slap Together a Story
Michael ● Generate Cheeseburger (Elements)
Fridgen Ideas through ● Discovery Task:
questions - Simple Story Map

4th ● Excerpt: ● Analyze the ● Vocabulary Bingo Teacher &

Saturday of The Red Author’s View ● Controversy: Cowardly Students
August Badge of ● Gain and Unpatriotic? (Short
Courage by Vocabulary Group Debate)
Stephen ● Create a blog ● Discovery Task:
Crane containing the - Create a blog about
students’ their insights of the
insights about story
the story

1st Saturday ● Poem: The ● Examine ● Directed Reading and Students

of American Kipling’s Thinking Activity (DRTA)
September Revolution Literary Point ● K-W-L Activity
by Rudyard of View ● Discovery Task
Kipling ● Make - Literary Criticism:
predictions Author’s Point of
throughout View
reading

4th Saturday ● The Open ● Identify the ● Story Webs

of Boat by Conflict ● Discovery Task
September Stephen ● Sequencing of - What is the Conflict?
Crane Events (Illustration)

2nd Quarter
Exam

1st Saturday ● The ● Describe ● Picture Perfect Students

of October Wedding traditional (Modified Paint me a
Dance by culture Picture)
Amador ● Discovery Task:
● Compose an
Daguio - Reflective Essay
essay about
 the story

4th ● Araby by ● Retell the ● Story Re-creation: It’s Students

Saturday of James Story Alive!
October Joyce ● Create a ● Discovery Task:
graphic - Graphic Organizer
organizer (Elements)
containing the
elements of
the story

1st Saturday ● The ● Identify ● Cause and Effect: Who is Students

of November Interlopers conflict the best character?
by H.H. ● Determine the ● Discovery Task:
Munro cause and - Character Scrapbook
Effects of the
conflict
● Character
analysis

4th Saturday ● The Fly by ● Analyze the ● Who am I? (Guessing Students

of Katherine text game for individual
November/ Mansfield ● Identify players using symbols)
symbols and ● Discovery Task
its meaning - Text Analysis

3rd Quarter
Exam

1st Saturday ● Trifles by ● Identify the ● Follow a yellow brick Students

of December Susan Elements of road!
Glaspell the Short ● Scavenger Hunt Activity
Story ● Discovery Task
● Identify moral - Reflection Paper
lesson of the
story

4th Saturday ● The Story of ● Apply ● Guided Reading Beach Students

of December an Hour by feminism Ball
 Kate approach in ● Discovery Task:
Chopin literary - Outline (facts and
criticism details in the text
that supports
feminism)

1st Saturday ● The Storm ● Identify the ● Story Talk (pair activity) Students
of January by Kate theme of the ● Discovery Task:
Chopin story and - Create a collage
what is it about the theme of
about the story
● Make a
collage

1st Saturday ● An ● Improve ● Shopping your way with Students

of February Occurrence vocabulary words! (List down words
at Owl ● Create a news and identify their
Creek scope meaning using the clues
Bridge by in the sentence)
Ambrose ● Discovery Task
Bierce - Create a news scope
about a particular
event in the story

4th Quarter
Exam