The Impact of Selected Strategies in Improving the Reading Comprehension of Grade Four Pupils in the Division of Quezon: Basis for further Intervention

Abstract

The main concern of this study is to determine the impact of instructional strategy to improve the reading proficiency of grade four pupils in English in Bukal Sur Elementary School in the municipality of Candelaria. To test the effectiveness of instructional strategies on the reading proficiency of pupils, the pretest-posttest design of experimental design was used complemented by library and online researches. All forty-six grade four pupils in the class, composed of instructional and frustration reader, were involved in the study. The data were collected through sets of researcher-constructed questionnaires on the extent use of the instructional strategies. The statistical tools used to analyze the problem were frequency and percentage distribution, mean, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, t-test and Two-way Analysis of Variance. Hypotheses were tested at p<.01 and p<.05. : Most grade four pupils are males and most of the pupil respondents belong to middle class. It was found out that the teacher used the instructional strategies in teaching reading in English at a great extent.In pretest in word recognition and oral reading comprehension, both females and males respondents are in the frustration level and committed mispronunciation miscues. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that the hypothesis stating that the differences in reading proficiency test scores are not significantly related to instructional strategies is accepted.