Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
REGION XI
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF DAVAO OCCIDENTAL
The READING TRAVAILS
(Training for Reading Advancement Via the Acquisition of Intelligence for Lifelong-learning Scheme)
VI. COMPREHENSION
INTRODUCTION: This lesson is on Comprehension. It has strategies that should be
explicitly taught. This aims at teaching the learners to understand the purpose of
their reading and adjust their reading behaviors according to that purpose. To the
reading teacher, enable the learners to learn that texts look different according
to their identified purpose, context, and audience. Help them also to understand
that the features of different text types help them make meaning.
LESSON 37: Book and Print Orientation
“We Love Books”
Directions: Get the learners ready. Show them a Big Book, play the video
and let the learners sing along the song “We Love Books”.
Say: What is this? What can you see inside this book? Do you love
reading?
Say: Before we will proceed to our reading session, we will hear, first, the
song, “We Love Books!”
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Book Song! | We Love Books!
By LBB Junior
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“Book Orientation”
Directions: Get the learners ready. Get a big book and tell the learners that
they will start reading a real book.
Say: Today, we will practice reading a real book. Now, I will call you one by
one and I will ask you to do something. Are you ready!
DO THIS!
Point to:
1. The front of the book
2. The title of the book
3. The author & illustrator
4. Where you should begin reading
5. A letter
6. A word
7. A picture
8. The first word of a sentence
9. The last word of a sentence
10. A period or question mark
The first and last word on a page
Punctuation marks
A capital letter
A lowercase letter
The back of the book
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Note to the Teacher:
1. Guidelines for promoting print awareness
 Make sure students know how books are organized. They should be
taught the basics about books – that they are read from left to right
and top to bottom, that print may be accompanied by pictures or
graphics, that the pages are numbered, and that the purpose of
reading is to gain meaning from the text and understand ideas that
words convey.
2. Here are five signs that indicate that your child has print awareness.
 Your child knows how to hold a book correctly. If you hand your child a
book upside down, he will turn it right side up before looking through it.
 Your child understands that books are read from front to back and
from left to right and knows how to turn the pages in the correct
direction.
 Your child pretends to write by scribbling or writing marks on paper. He
understands that the “words” he is writing communicate meaning.
 Your child points to text and asks what it says. He has become curious
about the meaning of the printed text he sees all around him.
 Your child picks up a familiar book and “reads” it aloud. He
understands that the printed words are connected to the story.
“Q & A”
Directions: Call each learner and let each one tells what they did.
Say: Let’s take a look at what you did. What did you point out on the book?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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The front and back cover
The title of the book
The beginning and ending of the text
The letters and the words
The pictures
The punctuations
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Say: Let’s take a look at the information below. Let’s read it aloud.
Children need to understand basic concepts of print
before they can learn to read. A child who has print awareness
understands that print represents words that have meaning
and are related to spoken language.
Kids who have print awareness are able to do things like
hold a book correctly and understand that books are read
from front to back. They also realize that sentences are read
from left to right.
Print awareness is one of five critical pre-reading skills.
Without print awareness, children are unable to develop other
literacy skills such as reading, spelling, and handwriting.
Ask: What is book and print awareness?
1. BOOK AWARENESS includes concepts such as front
cover, back cover, title, author, and which way to
turn the pages. It even incorporates how we treat
books.
2. PRINT AWARENESS includes terms such as: word,
letter, sentence, capital letter, & punctuation.
These can be confusing terms for many young
children and it usually takes lots of exposure to it
before print concepts are understood fully.
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Say: We will do again the activity that we did a while ago. This time we will
do it in triad so that each one of you will help one another to do all the tasks.
Are you ready?
DO THIS!
Point to:
1. The front of the book
2. The title of the book
3. The author & illustrator
4. Where you should begin reading
5. A letter
6. A word
7. A picture
8. The first word of a sentence
9. The last word of a sentence
10. A period or question mark
The first and last word on a page
Punctuation marks
A capital letter
A lowercase letter
The back of the book
Directions: Show the learners another Big Book and let the learners do the
following tasks:
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Say: I will call you, one by one, and you are going to do as I say.
TASKS
1. Points to front of book.
2. Points to back of book.
3. Points to top of book.
4. Points to top of picture
5. Points to bottom of book
6. Points to bottom picture.
7. Points to beginning of story.
8. Points to the right.
9. Points to first word on next line.
10. Points to end of story.
11. Says that it’s the end of the
sentence.
12. Says that it is a question.
13. Points to upper case for lower
case letter shown.
14. Points to lower case for upper
case shown.
15. Points to words.
16. Points to first letter of the word.
17. Points to last letter of the word.
Yes
No
Directions: (To the learning facilitator) Give the child a book and let
him/her do the tasks. Record his behaviours on the Book and Print
Orientation Record.
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Say: I will give you a book and you are going to point to the parts whatever is
asked from you:
BOOK AND PRINT ORIENTATION RECORD
Name: ______________________________
Age: ______________
Tasks
1. Points to front of book.
2. Points to back of book.
3. Points to top of book.
4. Points to top of picture
5. Points to bottom of book
6. Points to bottom picture.
7. Points to beginning of story.
8. Points to the right.
9. Points to first word on next line.
10. Points to end of story.
11. Says that it’s the end of the
sentence.
12. Says that it is a question.
13. Points to upper case for lower
case letter shown.
14. Points to lower case for upper
case shown.
15. Points to words.
16. Points to first letter of the
word.
17. Points to last letter of the
word.
Total Number of Items: 17
Yes
Pre-Test
Raw Score
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Response
Post-Test
Raw Score
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Response
Name
Sound
No
Observations
Name
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Reading Facilitator
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Sound
“Story Reading”
Direction: Get the learners ready. Get a Big Book with easy-to-read large print
and read a story that has predictable words in the text.
Read to children from books.
1. Use "big books" and draw attention to words and letters
Help children notice and learn to recognize words that occur frequently, such
as a, the, is, was, and you. Draw attention to letters and punctuation marks
within the story.
2. Reinforce the forms and functions of print
Point them out in classroom signs, labels, posters, calendars, and so forth.
3. Teach and reinforce print conventions
Discuss print directionality (print is written and read from left to right), word
boundaries, capital letters, and end punctuation.
4. Teach and reinforce book awareness and book handling
Promote word awareness by helping children identify word boundaries and
compare words
5. Allow children to practice what they are learning
Ask them to listen to and participate in the reading of predictable and
patterned stories and books.
6. Provide practice with predictable and patterned books
Also try using a wordless picture book like Pancakes. Go through each page
asking the children to tell the story from the pictures. Write their narration on a
large piece of paper. Celebrate the story they authored by eating pancakes!
7. Provide many opportunities for children to hear good books and to
participate in read-aloud activities.
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