Project CARE: An Intervention in Enhancing Pupils' Reading Comprehension Skills at Carmen Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading skills is a powerful weapon of every learner. An individual must know how to read to adopt every stage of learning. Reading without comprehension is a waste of time. An individual's ability to comprehend it would help them to process information. Reading without comprehension is useless. This may affect pupils' self-esteem and ability to perform well in class. Based on the result of the pre-test on Phil-IRI in the school year 2017-2018, 20 or 57.14 percent of grade four pupils from Carmen Elementary School belong to the frustration reading level. The status of pupils' reading proficiency level has led the researchers to conduct this study. This study explored the effectiveness of Project CARE (Children with Affection of Reading become Educated) in enhancing grade four pupils' reading comprehension skills of Carmen Elementary School, District of Silang, Division of Cavite, as the basis for an action plan, the school year 2017-2018.

METHODS

The study made use of quantitative research and pre-experimental in nature using one group to measure the improvement of pupils' reading comprehension skills after they were exposed to Project CARE.

RESULTS

The significant findings of the study were: (1) the target pupils belong to frustration level in terms of reading comprehension skills before Project CARE was utilized; (2) there are 7 or 35 percent of the target pupils who belong to independent level, 9 or 45 percent belong to instructional level and 4 or 20 percent belong to frustration reading comprehension skills after Project CARMEN was utilized; (3) there is a significant difference between the pre-test and posttest reading comprehension skills of the target pupils. This means that Project CARE is an effective intervention in enhancing pupils' reading comprehension skills.

DISCUSSIONS

This study was implemented on grade four pupils of Carmen Elementary School, District of Silang, Division of Cavite, in the School Year 2017-2018. Twenty (20) pupils participated in the utilization of the intervention. This research would be valuable to school administrators and teachers from the elementary level in planning and designing a reading intervention program in improving pupils' reading proficiency level.