Development of Proposed Plan of Action in Enhancing Grade Six Pupils Reading Ability in Sto. Tomas North Central School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading is one of the four important language skills that should be mastered by students. It is one of the ways to getting the knowledge that cannot be separated from every learning process and it does not only happen in the educational field but also in our daily lives. For getting knowledge and information, people read books, magazines, newspapers, advertisements and etc. It is also a source of learning and enjoyment. The purpose of this study is to examine and finds ways on how to decrease the struggling readers in Filipino to average readers of Grade 6 pupils of Sto. Tomas North Central School. It was the intent of this study to investigate the reading of Grade 6 pupils struggling readers and how it has been actually implemented in school during the period of 2 months.

METHODS

This research employed a descriptive methodsince it used the data of Oral Reading Test in Filipino for the S.Y. 2017-2018. The participants of this research were the Grade 6 pupils of Sto. Tomas North Central School, Section Yakal, Molave, Acacia, Mahogany, Kamagong, Katmon and Tindalo and the two Filipino teachers in Grade 6. To answer the Action Research Question, the researchers conducted a Pre Oral Reading Test and informally interviewed the Grade 6 Filipino teachers. Pupils undergo a Pre -oral A Pre-Oral Reading such as "Teacher Ko, Tutor Ko","Little Big Brother", and Each One, Teach One ``The teacher also conducted remedial teaching during Dear time and conducted home visitation to follow -up pupils' performance in reading while at home.

RESULTS

It can be gleaned from the study that out of 436 Grade 6 pupils, there were 24 pupils who were struggling readers which comprised 5.50% of its total enrollment. These 24 pupils undergone different reading intervention and as a result, out of 24 struggling readers, 18 pupils were improved their reading level to Average. It means that with the intervention done by the Grade six teachers, there was an improvement in pupils' reading level.

DISCUSSIONS

From the data gathered ,It can be concluded that the intervention done in this study such as "Teacher Ko,Tutor Ko", "Little Big Brother", and Each One, Teach One", remedial teaching during Dear time and home visitation were very effective to uplift learner's capacity to learn, especially in reading.