Comprehension Instruction among Senior High School Students in FABINHS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Good instruction is the most powerful means of developing a learner's various skills. Among which is reading comprehension, thereby prevent learning difficulties in the subject areas where the skills are deemed indispensable. Indeed, reading comprehension skills is an essential tool in the pupils' facilitating and understanding of the other subject areas aside from English. Comprehension instruction is one of the novel trends sought out by Educators in the present generation. Narrowly defined, comprehension instruction promotes the ability to learn from the text. More broadly, comprehension instruction gives students access to culturally important domains of knowledge and provides a means of pursuing affective and intellectual goals.

METHODS

This study used quantitative features in the design, data collection, and analysis. The quantitative data were derived from a descriptive-normative survey.

RESULTS

The results showed that the item established the reading-writing connection has the highest weighted mean of 4.52. Lastly, the item which tells pupils to anticipate the author and predict future ideas or questions got the lowest weighted mean of 3.0. As perceived by teachers, the item with the highest weighted means was checked whether the new words are correctly defined with 4.94mean scores. Summarizing up an average weighted mean of 4.06 with the interpretation of Great Extent was obtained in the Development of Creative and Critical Thinking.

DISCUSSIONS

Reading comprehension requires motivation, mental frameworks for holding ideas, concentration, and good study techniques and the role of vocabulary instruction in enhancing comprehension is complex. Various aspects of word consciousness may be crucial to strategies for independent word learning and various genres of text diversify instructional opportunities as assessed by teachers and students. Moreover, the teachers and parents should appreciate children's thinking as the foundation of their language abilities and they should maintain some flexibility in the development of decoding skills such as reading.