Improving Reading Comprehension of Grade III Pupils with Below 75% Proficiency through SIRRA (Supervised individual Remedial Reading Approach) in Paaralang Elementarya ng Quipot

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The National reading panel has stated that there are five specific practices that teachers should be used when teaching children to read or when helping them improve their reading skills. These practices are phonemic awareness, instruction in phonics, guided oral reading practice with feedback, vocabulary instruction, and comprehension strategy instruction. Through SIRRA, the learner was now allowed to gain knowledge and ideas. Non-performing pupils end up as a failure if they were not able to understand well instructions written in the English language.

METHODS

The monitoring scheme is designed to ensure that the respondents are supervised by the parents. The monitoring scheme is designed to ensure that the respondents are having their reading activities at home.

RESULTS

The result noted that from June, the reading proficiency of the respondents has an average of 64.50%, whereas upon the implementation of SIRRA as an intervention the reading proficiency has increased to 70%, 74.50%, 76.88%, 78.13%, 78.88%,79.50%,80.25%,80.75%, and 81.63%, respectively up to March 2018.

DISCUSSIONS

Reading is one of the most important skills a person may ever acquire, it is important that pupils know what they are reading. If teaching strategies will help pupils understand and gain meaningful information from what they are reading then that is what teaching should do. Teaching pupils reading strategies will not just help pupils be more successful in school but it will also help them be more successful in general if they are consequently better able to understand the text.