Effectiveness of Project Abakada Plus on Developing the Reading Skills of Grade Two Non-Readers

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading is one of the most important skills a pupil should learn in school. A pupil who cannot read encountered difficulty in his/her studies. All subjects in school requires reading, failure to attain this is also failure in his/her studies. Having pupils who are non-readers is also one of the biggest problem of the teacher and school as well. That is why school administrator and teachers should find ways and means to teach these children to read.

METHODS

This study used a descriptive method of research. It described, analyzed, and interpreted data concerning pupils' reading ability. Quantitative data is derived from the Phil-IRI documents. The seven (7 ) pupils who were identified as non-readers based from the result of Phil-IRI posttest last school year 2016-2017 are the participants of the study. The researchers asked the permission from the school Teacher In charge to use the PHIL-IRI documents in their study. Pupils participants were given questionnaire checklist for their profiling.

RESULTS

The data gathered from the pupils and teachers respondents have been summarized, tallied and put in tabular form, which are herein presented to answer the problems posed earlier in this research.

DISCUSSIONS

With the results derived from the study, the researchers had reflected the following such as family plays important role to the life of learners, teachers should put his/her heart in everything he/she does, teachers must be competent enough in teaching reading among pupils especially to primary level, teachers should encourage the parents and other members of the family of the Grade II pupils to exert effort to follow up and assist their children in developing their oral reading in Filipino, parents should give enough time to teach their children despite of their economic status, ABAKADA PLUS program is an effective reading remediation for non-readers.