Developing Reading Enhancement Activities and Materials Towards Continuous Improvement of Students' Comprehension Level

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Comprehension is not actually taught. That's what we've learned in our study. It takes a gradual step in order to come up with the fine results at the end of the process. As was mentioned in some studies, teachers' beliefs and the use of effective materials are other factors to students' comprehension improvement. The main reason why we thought of innovating materials that helped in the increase of learners' comprehension level. This research is funded under the Basic Education Research Fund (BERF) through the Division Research Committee and PPRD Region V.

METHODS

Varied methodologies were used in this action research. A descriptive method was used to discuss the responses in each question. Purposive sampling was used to determine the respondents based on the teacher's assessment results. Interviews and classroom observations were conducted among teachers that helped us identified the teaching strategies based on the activities conducted in their classes. The assessment on the level of acceptance of the proposed interventions and reading activities was measured using the five-point Likert Scale. A tabular data from determined the students' improvement in the level of comprehension based on the teacher's made reading materials.

RESULTS

The diagnostic test was administered during the First Quarter of the school year using the pencil-paper test with the following topics; vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, and grammar. The results have shown that the percentage of the learners under literal is 84.37% or 27 out of 32, and 15.63% or 5 out of 32 inferential. The post-test was administered in the second week of October with the percentage of 9.38% literal or 3 out of 32, 75% inferential or 24 out of 32 and 15.625% or 5 out of 32 students. As it was noted, after the implementation of the CI proposed solutions, the comprehension level of the customers has increased to 3.31% which indicated the positive approach made by the team, especially the utilization of intervention materials.

DISCUSSIONS

The teachers must religiously and consistently monitor the academic performance of the students and must look after their welfare by looking at their needs of materials and references, thus, the materials made by us must still be used by the future Grade 10 students in the next years to come, and perhaps devise an operant conditioning system of rewards and recognition in order to boost their interest in studying. As the study taught us, future studies focusing on reading and reading comprehension enhancement is imperative.