Pagbasa Muna is a comprehensive reading program that ensures that the children’s skills in literacy are strengthened through both classroom and home intervention.

The primary objectives of the project are to help the students develop a lifelong love for books, provide parents with training and learning materials, and to enrich teachers’ skills and equip them with the needed resources in order to strengthen the domains of literacy among their students.

Under the Pagbasa Muna Program is the Handang Magbasa Program for learners, parents, and teachers of daycare centers and Grades 1 to 3. From its inception in 2021 up to the present, the City Government was able to provide:

    Handang Magbasa for Daycare

1. 162,576 Storybooks
2. 24,110 Parent Manuals
3. 317 Teacher Manuals

    Handang Magbasa for Grades 1-3

1. 97,000 Storybooks
2. 13,500 Parent Manuals
3. 300 Teacher Manuals

All in all, through the Pagbasa Muna Program, the City Government has procured:

• 216,576 Storybooks for Kindergarten
• 7,150 Reading Remediation Books
• 198 Wikahon Boxes
• 156 SRA Boxes
• 13,245 Phonics Activity Book Set