Improving the Critical Reading Skills of Grade 5 Jupiter Pupils Using the Semantic Web Approach

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Critical reading is a skill that has been recently used to prepare the children for life in an information society. This skill emphasized the making sense of messages from different sources such as multimedia, complex visual components, music as well as written and spoken words. Often, the improvement of the critical reading skill of the learners depends on the different interventions and innovations a teacher does and the result or impact of improvement vary from how effective the interventions and innovations were. In this study, the researcher used one approach to determine if there is a significant improvement in the critical reading skills of the learners.

METHODS

The Semantic Web Approach (SWA) was used as an instrument in improving the critical reading skills of the learners of Badia Elementary School, Grade Five -Jupiter class with 43 learners. The learners' reading abilities were assessed using the Phil-IRI Assessment Tool where, Pre-test and Post-test were compared to determine the significant improvement of the learners' critical reading skills. The said intervention was integrated with their lessons which were conducted from November 2018 -January 2019.

RESULTS

A significant improvement on the Reading Skills particularly on the Critical Reading Skills of the learners greatly improved after the implementation of the said instrument. The following table below shows the result of the standardized assessment tool used to measure the significant improvement of the learner's critical reading skills after the utilization of Semantic Web Approach (SWA).

The table above discloses that there is a correlation of -.406 and significance of 0.007* in the critical reading skills of the Grade-5 Jupiter pupils which indicates that there is a significance between the results of the pre-test and post-test. Therefore, it can also be noted that there is a significant improvement of the critical reading skills of Grade 5 Jupiter pupils of BADIPA Elementary School before and after using the Semantic Web Approach. Additionally, the evaluation criteria set in forth in this action research is also accepted as more than 75 percent of the Grade-5 Jupiter pupils have improved their critical reading skills with the aid of Semantic Web Approach.

DISCUSSIONS

Through the utilization of the Semantic Web Approach (SWA), a significant improvement on the reading level of the learners manifested. As other research studies show, the result tells that the said instrument is effective in improving the reading level particularly the comprehension skills of the learners. Though some of the learners did not show improvement, the factor of utilizing the said instrument in just two months may be the cause. Therefore, to have an overwhelming improvement in the reading level of the learners, the said instrument should be utilized in a long time or maybe as often as possible throughout the entire grading period.