CARE in the New Normal for Indigenous People Learners

Teaching reading to beginning learners in the indigenous cultural communities has been challenged since the suspension of the face-to-face classes. While the country is along the process of adapting the new landscape of education, continuous innovations in education are considered essential in the learning continuity. This action research aimed to improve the reading levels of Grade One struggling readers in schools implementing Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, by employing innovative contextualized approaches in the new normal setting. It was revealed that beginning learners had extreme difficulty in answering and understanding the reading tasks because their parents couldn’t also read apart from the difficulty in understanding the language used in the module. With the implementation of Project CARE, it was found out that the reading levels of the learners have improved. The participants agree that through the innovative and contextualized..