Higher Order Thinking Skill Activities in Enhancing Reading Comprehension and Science Vocabulary Words

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

To further develop students' critical thinking, the researcher can guide them to understand the concept by giving various activities and strategies to comprehend well. However, how can students develop and achieve meaningful reading experience? One possible way is to use Higher Order Thinking Skill activities.

METHODS

The study is qualitative, experimental, and used pre-test and post-test. The study used 312 Grade VI pupils of Naic Elementary School. Frustration Level was utilized to determine the performance level of Grade VI pupils towards reading comprehension and vocabulary words. There were 44 (14%) pupils in Level of Frustration.

RESULTS

The significant difference of Grade VI pupils using higher order thinking skill activities in enhancing reading comprehension and vocabulary words wherein highly effective response showed p-value of 0.00805 reject the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance.

DISCUSSIONS

The results showed that the Higher Order Thinking Skill activities gave a great impact to increase the reading comprehension and vocabulary words of the pupils. Thus, reading strategies help to develop reading performance of the pupils nowadays and in the near future. In order to achieve this continuously, the teacher will need more thought-provoking tasks to further strengthen pupils' critical thinking skills.