Impact of Monthly Fairy Tale Presentation of Parents, Teachers and Learners to the Reading Comprehension of Gulang-gulang Elementary School Learners: Basis for the Development of intervention Material

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

In this changing world, reading is one of how one gets information to be in tune with the rapid changes in education. Reading comprehension skills are the complicated factors in reading development of the learners. When monitoring teachers in teaching Reading, the researcher observes lots of difficulties on part of the teachers teaching reading due to poor comprehension of the learners.

METHODS

This study employed non-equivalence pre-test and posttest quasi-experimental design. Early Grade Reading Assessment tool was used for Primary Learners at the beginning and ending of classes for three consecutive years from S.Y. 2016-2019 to monitor the impact of monthly fairy tale presentation by parents, teachers and learners and intervention material used for struggling readers. It was conducted every month to motivate learners for love of reading and developed their imaginative minds to comprehend from the stories they read. The intervention material was consisted of researcher made stories and evaluated by the master teachersof Gulang-gulang Elementary School and validated to the group of learners from the previous group of struggling readers to address their needs in reading. The study demonstrated authenticity and inventiveness that adopting new ideas makes it holistic research. It was limited to the Primary Learners enrolled from S.Y. 2016-2019 with the respondents from Gulang-gulang Elementary School.

RESULTS

The result of T-Test revealed that there was no significant difference of first grade of School Year 2016-2019 with the t-value of 1.95. For second and third grade, the result revealed that there was a significant difference with t-values of 2.60 and 3.95 at 0.05 level. The results had a critical value of 2.776 which indicated the significant difference for the three consecutive years. Therefore, fairy tale presentation of parents, teachers and learners and intervention material had a great impact to the reading comprehension of learners.

DISCUSSIONS

The impact of the fairy tale presentation of parents, teachers and learners had great impact to the reading comprehension of learners for three years most specifically to the second and third graders. Struggling Learners as revealed in the study, needs a specific intervention material to developed their comprehension skills. Thus, this study served as a breakthrough to motivate the learners for love of reading and to improve the comprehension skills using the reading intervention materials for primary learners.