Spelling Ability of Grade Four Pupils in Reading and Writing

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The foundation of one's pupil in his/her education is reading and writing. Parents, as our saying is the first teacher of their children who taught how to read and write their names before they send to school. The teachers in primary grade follow-up on how to read and write their pupils accurately and properly. But, the problem that comes up in their transition grade which is grade four is the spelling ability of pupils in reading and writing. For these reasons, the researcher found it interesting to conduct a study in the Grade Four pupils to test their spelling skills. The result of the said performance test desire a helpful answer, to knowledge, or recommendation to the existing problem in the said area, if there is any, to the beneficiaries of this study.

METHODS

A set of exercises on theme writing was conducted and commonly misspelled were noted. Results were tabulated and analyzed using simple mean and average.Pre-Test on spelling ability of pupils consisting of a 6-10 items was administered. Pupils were grouped with two members helped each other in answering the test questions. The test was administered for five consecutive days. Their responses was checked and recorded. Percent of correct responses per item was computed for the five days test with a total of 30 correct answers. Mastery level was determined for each word as follows:75 % and above with mastery 74 % and below not masteredIntervention was given for word tools which were not mastered by pupils.The following were the intervention done: Spelling drillsSpelling BeeWriting paragraphs using the misspelled words A game Use a stick to scratch spelling words to the dirtUse rocks, twigs and leaves to form spelling words on the ground outside Bounce a ball and spell the words to the rhythm

RESULTS

Pre-test revealed that 25% of the pupils attained mastery level while 75% did not meet the standard. After the intervention, there was a remarkable increase of 88% in the mastery level and only 12% belonged to those who did not meet the standard.

DISCUSSIONS

The important components of reading and writing is spelling. The pupils without the knowledge on how to spell a word cannot read and write a single word as well as writing simple sentence and paragraph.These strategies proved to be more effective for grade four pupils. The teachers as well as the pupils enjoyed the different strategiesused in developing the spelling ability of grade four pupils.