Enhancing the Performance of Grade Five Learners in English Using Reap (Ready to Play Lessons)

The new normal in education gave rise to redefining the schools’ way of teaching and assessing students. It brought into the fore an alternative to more traditional educational approaches, competency-based learning, which made it the new normal in education. It is for this reason that ready to play lessons, anchored on the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs), have been developed and utilized in order to target the multiples ways in which the learners learn best as well as to improve the learners performance in English among the Grade 5 learners at Pangapisan Elementary School during the school year 2021- 2022. Utilizing the results of the pretest and posttest in English, results of the study showed how the Grade 5 learners of PES benefited from the use of ready to play lessons in English as evidenced by their improved levels of performance in the said tests. Moreover, the results of the study reveal that there was significant difference in the levels of performance of the Grade 5 learners after they were taught in English using ready to play lessons. Thus, teachers are recommended to scaffold the instruction in English with the use of tools that are competency-based and target the best ways in which the students learn best.

Competency-based learning, English, MELCs, New normal, Video lessons

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