TARAKI: Think and Arrange , Read and Acquire knowledge through Interactive games

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TARAKI stands for “Think and Arrange, Read and Acquire Knowledge through Interactive games”, a hands-on game utilized in classroom for reading intervention. It aims to enhance the reading fluency of struggling readers from a frustration to an independent level of performance, along with improving numeracy skills of the learners. The game comprises three levels: the pico-sound game, the word blend game and the word math scrabble, which are implemented during remedial instruction. The beneficiaries of the innovation were 14 males and 6 females with reading difficulty on Consonant Vowel Consonant Vowel (CVCV) words and even letter sounds. The activities within TARAKI innovation involve creating blend sounds and words from learners’ vocabulary, except for the picto-sound game, where learners identify the initial sound of the picture to come- up with the blend sound. The intervention sessions were scheduled every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the picto-sound game and every Tuesday and Thursday for word blend and word math scrabble. Based on the Teacher Made Assessment posttest result, 13 can read paragraphs with no errors, and 7 pupils misread one to seven words. Phil- iri posttest result, 18 pupils were under instructional level, 1 pupil was independent, and 1 pupil was frustrated with 89%-word recognition. FLAT result, 14 pupils can read paragraphs, 4 pupils can read stories, 2 can read words. Notably, 20 pupils can add and subtract 2 digits by two-digit numbers in picto- sound game, blend word game and word math scrabble game without supervision. With this, through working on the blend sound game, blend word game and word math scrabble, the 20 grade 2 pupil-beneficiaries can read words and paragraphs as well as they can add and subtract 2- digit numbers mentally.

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