Teaching of reaching brought a monumental implication to teaching and learning. This qualitative-narrative research aimed to determine the narratives of Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology Elementary Laboratory School. Results showed that teachers were challenged by unresponsive learners, lack of parental support, and lack of reading materials. Meanwhile, they provided their learners with remedial reading activities. They advised that teachers must be passionate and compassionate in handling learners to enhance their reading skills.

Teaching of reaching brought a monumental implication to teaching and learning. This qualitative-narrative research aimed to determine the narratives of Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology Elementary Laboratory School. Results showed that teachers were challenged by unresponsive learners, lack of parental support, and lack of reading materials. Meanwhile, they provided their learners with remedial reading activities. They advised that teachers must be passionate and compassionate in handling learners to enhance their reading skills.

The implementation of the Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education in the Philippine has been marred with a lot of challenges. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using mother tongue in addressing the needs of Muslim learners in the Municipality of Arakan, particularly on the successful implementation of MTB-MLE program. This study sought to analyze the gathered questions and responses of the participants. Results showed that their insight on the implementation is that they faced difficulties in comprehension. Also, the printed materials were written in local dialect, they had the difficulty in reading and writing the local dialect, and some terms were difficult to understand. Self-review, reading of the materials, and asking peers for help were some of their coping strategies. They suggested that teachers and classmates should speak in Filipino for comprehension.