This  study focused  on the use of marungko approach  as a means of developing  reading ability and performance of one hundred and fourteen (114)grade one learners of Siranglupa Elementary School Calamba Laguna for S.Y.  2022-2023.  Purposive sampling as well as descriptive method was used to get the required number of the study and to gather important information and expected result .              Based on the result, the level of use of marungko approach  as a means of developing reading skills based on letter recognition has a verbal interpretation of  strongly agree with the description of very high , on the other hand, letter sound or phonemic awareness, syllabication, and spelling has a verbal interpretation of Agree with the description of high which proves that the use of marungko helps to improved reading skills of the learners.               On the result of reading level on the performance skills  of learners using marungko, it reveals that all the statement answered by the respondents got a verbal interpretation of Agree with the description of high in terms of  reading accuracy, reading speed and reading comprehension which also shows that it helps to improved   the level of reading performance of learners using marungko.                 In a further analysis, it is found out that “There is no significant effect on the use of  Marungko Method as an Approach to the Development of Reading Ability and Performance Skills of learners . Thus , the null hyphotesis on the first chapter  is accepted. It shows that the Marungko method has no effect on the performance skills  of  the learners .

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