ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF STRATEGIC INTERVENTION MATERIALS (SIMS) IN TEACHING ELEMENTARY ENGLISH 4-CONTENT VALIDATION * Trixie E. Cubillas College of Education, Caraga State University, Ampayon, Butuan City, Philippines, 8600 ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT The primary objective of the study is to develop Strategic Intervention Material (SIMs) in teaching Elementary English 4 as a teacher support material in mastering the competencies in the Elementary English 4. It is considered developmental since it underwent three phases namely: planning, development and validation. The respondents of the study were the content experts. They validated the developed SIMs through a researcher –made instrument. The content experts rated the developed SIMs “very satisfactory”. This showed that the five (5) experts viewed the suitable and appropriate to enhance the mastery of the eight (8) Elementary English 4 competencies in the first and second grading period. It is then recommended that the aspects of the materials that were rated “satisfactory” by the experts should be improved. Teachers may also develop more strategic intervention materials for other subject areas to address the pupils’ least learned skills and a similar study may be conducted covering a bigger number of respondents in another location. Copyright © 2018, Trixie E. Cubillas. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. INTRODUCTION The Philippine Educational System undergoes major changes brought about by the Kindergarten to Grade 12 or K-12 Basic Education Curriculum. Challenges come along with these changes. One of the issues faced by the present curriculum is the dearth of learning materials. This issue became an inevitable problem that haunts the country’s new curriculum in the three years of its implementation. Admittedly, the Department of Education agreed that there have been delays in the delivery of learning materials such as activity sheets and modules for the pupils (Legaspi, 2014).Even before the change of the curriculum, elementary public school teachers had already several complaints on the shortage of learning materials particularly textbooks which is a predicament that still exists at present. The unavailability of instructional materials and also teachers’ lack of knowledge on material development become prevalent and lingering problems among educational institutions. *Corresponding author: Trixie E. Cubillas, College of Education, Caraga State University, Ampayon, Butuan City, Philippines, 8600. Although DepEd boldly declared that all learning material shortages will be wiped out before the end of 2013 and even promised to have a one is to one or 1:1 ratio for student to textbook within school year 2012 – 2013,but in the actual classroom setting, one textbook is shared by two to three and even more pupils. The same issue resonates in several elementary public schools in Caraga Region. The Basic Education Information System (BEIS) revealed that a few schools in Caraga have1: 3 ratio of learner to textbook (Dios, 2014 ). This means that the pupils who are assigned to keep the books have a greater advantage over those who go home without something with them. Facing this issue, teachers must have the ingenuity in devising and providing the necessary, attractive, and interesting materials which will be made available to pupils for use in classes. The use of sufficient, and strategically designed instructional materials suited for the type of learners is greatly encouraged for learning materials in teaching especially English play an integral role in the teaching – learning process. Its use greatly affects student’s academic performance particularly in the English subject as mentioned in Dahar, (2011 as cited in Salviejo, 2014). ISSN: 2230-9926 International Journal of Development Research Vol. 08, Issue, 06, pp.21252-21259, June, 2018 Article History: Received 23 rd March, 2018 Received in revised form 27 th April, 2018 Accepted 20 th May, 2018 Published online 30 th June, 2018 Available online at http://www.journalijdr.com Key Words: Content Validation Least-learned Skills. Development, Strategic Intervention Materials, Validation. Citation: Trixie E. Cubillas. 2018. “Development and Validation of Strategic Intervention Materials (SIMs) in Teaching Elementary English 4-Content Validation”, International Journal of Development Research, 8, (06), 21252-21259. ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS