Phonemic awareness and numeracy skills in oral reading of sibol learners: basis for an extension program

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work. Numeracy complements literacy and is sometimes called “mathematical literacy”. It is the ability to reason and to apply simple numerical concepts. Sibol is one of the seven Gawad Kalinga programs centered on Child Youth and Development. It provides value based education for pre‐school children, ages 3 to 6 years old through its program called SIBOL, which means “to grow” in the Filipino language. The study aimed to determine the level of Phonemic awareness and numeracy skills of 30 Sibol learners– Miatan Subanen Community of the school year 2014-2015.ANOVA was used to determine the significant difference among the Sibol learners’ skills in oral reading readiness indicator and t-test to determine the significant difference between the male and female oral reading skills. Male and female Sibol learners were Less Skillful in Oral Reading Readiness both in Phonemic and Numeric Skills with respect to different indicators. It has been realized that there is a significant and noticeable difficulty of these identified learners in terms of oral reading activity.