The Impact of Project RAC EN' ROL (Read and Comprehend, Ensure Readiness on Learning) in Improving the Reading Comprehension Skill of Grade Seven Struggling Readers at Anselmo A. Sandoval Memorial

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading comprehension is a never-ending issue across the educational curriculum. It has become very much evident that a number of students display poor reading comprehension skills resulting to low grades not only in some academic subjects. This study targets to determine the basic impact of the six major approaches under the reading program, RAC EN' ROL in improving the reading comprehension skill of Grade Seven struggling readers.

METHODS

This descriptive research relied mainly on the results of the survey questionnaire distributed to the respondents. The extreme/ deviant case purposive sampling was used to identify the impact of the six approaches under project RAC EN' ROL to the reading comprehension of the struggling readers. A total of fifty (50) respondents consisting of forty-seven (47) grade seven students and three (3) English teachers answered the survey questionnaire. In order to determine the impact of the project, the mean percentage score of pre and post comprehension tests results were used as main data for analysis and interpretation.

RESULTS

This study pointed out that different approaches of Project RAC EN' ROL created a significant impact on the comprehension level and academic grades of struggling readers. This research showed that the two most influential approaches used were guided collaborative reading and one teacher-one struggling reader reading tutorials.

DISCUSSIONS

To address the problem on struggling reading comprehension among grade seven students, language teachers initiated the founding and implementing of a reading program called RAC EN' ROL from where the six approaches were utilized such as providing localized reading texts, utilizing improved classroom reading comprehension processing, conducting one-hour period for guided-collaborative reading, incorporating the use of functional reading corner, orienting students about the importance of reading comprehension through symposium and remediating the struggling reading comprehension through one teacher onestruggling reader sessions.