Project Dear AR
Project Dear AR
Department of Education
Region V – Bicol
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE OF CAMARINES NORTE
Paracale District
PINAGBIRAYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
112256
ACCOMPLISHMENT REPORT
The school reading coordinator, Mam Princess A. Rasco, relay the information about the
implementation of the Project DEAR, Drop Everything and Read. DEAR Time, often known as
“Drop Everything and Read”, is a period that is consistently allotted in the school calendar
for pupils and teachers. As a result, DEAR time easily accommodates a range of learner’s
interests and reading ability levels. This is 15 minutes daily activity devoted to reading books or
any materials available in the school.
The primary goal of this initiative is to strengthen foundational, social, and other relevant
skills necessary to actualize the intent of the basic education curriculum. The initiative is integral
to the National Reading and Mathematics Programs, which are criticized subprograms of the
NLRP stipulated in DO O 13, s. 2023. The objectives of Catch-up Friday include operationalizing
the National Reading Program (NRP) during the first half of the school day's schedule and
fostering values, health, and peace education during the second half.
Our school is dedicated to operationalizing the National Reading Program (NRP). To
implement Catch-Up Friday effectively, various strategies will be employed by schools. These
strategies include Drop Everything and Read (DEAR), Read-A-Thon, invitations from resource
persons, guided reading, reading workshops, and reading buddies. These strategies help to
strengthen foundational reading skills among students, particularly in decoding, fluency, and
comprehension. DEAR is a strategy that involves students dropping everything they are doing
and reading for a specific period of time. This strategy helps to promote reading habits among
students and improve their reading skills. On the other hand, Read-A-Thon is another strategy
that involves students reading as many books as possible within a specific timeframe to promote
a reading culture and competitiveness among students.
In addition to DEAR and Read-A-Thon, Catch-up Friday also includes strategies
such as guided reading, reading workshops, and reading buddies. Guided reading involves the
teacher guiding small groups of students through a reading activity using level readers or texts
that match their reading levels. The teacher provides support and feedback as the students read,
helping them to develop decoding and comprehension skills. Reading workshops are facilitated
by the teacher and cover topics such as phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
Interactive activities like games, songs, and role-plays are used to make the workshop engaging
and fun for the students. Reading buddies involve pairing students with different reading levels
together as reading buddies. The more advanced student helps the less advanced student
develop decoding and comprehension skills through guided reading sessions or peer tutoring
activities. To implement Catch-up Friday effectively, schools can also organize fora to discuss
topics related to values, health, and peace education and invite resource persons to provide
insights into these topics. Collaborative expertise sessions through Learning Action Cells (LAC)
and other professional development activities will also be organized for teachers to share
effective practices and prepare materials together for the effective implementation of catch-up
Fridays. By implementing these strategies, schools can foster a lifelong love for reading among
students and enhance academic performance in other subjects as well.
Sir Ariel C. Balmeo, the School Principal had discussed the implementation of the Dep Ed’s
Project DEAR, He added also to improve the learner’s reading, skill and develop reading habit
among learners.
By giving importance to the “Araw ng Pagbasa”, we teachers promoting reading and literacy
among our learners even as we motivate them to learn from the lives and works of eminent
Filipinos.
In pursuit of this, school officials are encouraged to conduct reading and literacy activities in
honor of Ninoy Aquino. Schools are likewise asked to partner with non-government organizations
and private sector to foster cooperation in the community.
The implementation of this program produced several outcomes for our dear students as
first-hand beneficiaries. Firstly, it will help to strengthen foundational skills among students,
particularly in reading and mathematics, which are critical components of the basic education
curriculum. Secondly, it will promote social skills among students through values education,
which is essential for nation-building as stipulated in RA No. 11476, Good Manners, and Right
Conduct (GMRC), and the Values Education Act. Thirdly, it will promote peaceful competencies
among students through peace education, which is necessary in light of the 2022 Program for
International Student Assessment (PISA) results revealing that bullying remains a pervasive
problem in public schools. Fourthly, it will promote overall health and well-being among students
through health education. Finally, Catch-up Friday will contribute to achieving education targets
as stipulated in DepEd Order (DO) No. 013, s. 2023, titled Adoption of the National Learning
Recovery Program (NLRP).