Project LEAN: Key to Improve Reading Comprehension Skills of Grade 4 Readers at Risks

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The primary objective of this study is to find out what reading interventions would improve the reading comprehension skills of Grade 4 readers at risk. The findings of the study would bridge the gap between the information presented in the written text, and the knowledge the learners possess.

METHODS

The subject of this study was 24 Grade 4 students: selected purposively from the list of frustration and struggling readers. The study used reading intervention/ enhancement activities with the provision of free afternoon snacks for 30 days. Teaching strategies such as the individual, group reading, graphic organizers, and Multi-media was used, to find their effects on reading comprehension of Grade 4 readers at risk.

RESULTS

Group reading interventions proved to be more effective in improving the skills on reading comprehension of students; 21or 88% out of 24 readers at risk raised their level of reading status from frustration to instructional & independent readers.

DISCUSSIONS

The results of this study have implications for the potential positive response of students to comprehend fully on written texts. The paper begins with an overview of how important comprehension skills is in reading texts, furthermore, it gives importance to the nutritional need of students before allowing them to read so they were given free afternoon snacks. The author then proposed several enhancement reading strategies thereby affecting student comprehension skills in varying degrees.