Without intending to, Quezon City 3rd District Rep. Jorge “Bolet” Banal made headlines last year at the height of the impeachment trial of then Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, where the lawmaker served in the secretariat of the House prosecution team.
If it wasn’t for her love of reading, Miss Universe 2011 third runner-up Shamcey Supsup would not have achieved everything she has achieved so far: a Magna Cum Laude graduate from the University of the Philippines, an architecture licensure exam topnotcher, and a world-renowned beauty queen.
On Friday afternoons, teachers of Umapad Elementary School in Mandaue City notice that some of their pupils are “missing.”
More than 800 students joined this year’s first Inquirer Read-Along session outside the newspaper’s offices on Friday at Calvario Elementary School in Meycauayan, Bulacan. It was one of the biggest Read-Along audiences since the program began in 2007.
A read-along event in Tabaco City in Albay has unveiled a different world in a facility run by nuns dedicated to providing food, shelter, clothing, education and care to abandoned and orphaned children.
I was still a teacher at the biggest school in Makati, Pembo Elementary School, when the Inquirer in Education’s (IIE) serial reading story, “Frannie Learns a Lesson” rolled off the press for, I guess, more than six Mondays (It was for eight Mondays. –Ed.). Little did I know then that I would partner with the Philippine Daily Inquirer in the future.
A woman was found dead at Reading’s Madejski Stadium, having suffered serious head injuries, police said Sunday.
In the advent of cell phones and computers, teachers should be more creative in encouraging children to read. Confronting this challenge squarely is Keena Martinez, 27, a teacher of Child Learning Foundation (CLF) in Mandaue City who also doubles as a librarian.
People of Pandan town in Antique province might have read their way into history. At least 10,000 of them, mostly elementary and high school students, formed a line along the 16-kilometer stretch of the national highway and held a simultaneous “read-aloud” of the same story to mark National Reading Day on Nov. 27.
A man with an axe wanted to chop the last remaining tree in the city to give way to the construction of a new building, but animals dwelling in the tree—an owl, monkey, butterfly, rabbit, monitor lizard and cat—pulled a stunt to scare him away and protect their only home.
Residents of Pandan town in Antique read their way into the record books in what was probably the biggest ever simultaneous “read-aloud” activity in the country.
Award-winning books found in bookstores are choices that cannot go wrong.
It is a daily challenge for Divina Flores, principal of Mayor A.S. Fortuna Memorial Elementary School (MASFMES) in Barangay Guizo, Mandaue City, to encourage 1,200 pupils to love reading.
