The Effect of Project Spread (Summer Program for Reading Enhancement and Development) on the Reading Performance of Selected incoming Grade Seven Students at Guronasyon Foundation incorporated NHS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading is essential in education and is the foundation of life-long learning. It is the basis for success in all other skills. The education field has been engaged in different programs and innovations on how to improve the reading skills of learners. Strengthening and balancing students' ability for word recognition and comprehension may help them to be considered as independent readers. Reading promotion gives the chance to raise the sheer joy of exercising the imagination and improves literacy, social skills, health, and learning outcomes.

METHODS

The study aimed to identify the effects of Project SPREAD (Summer Program for Reading Enhancement and Development) on the reading performance of selected incoming grade seven students at Guronasyon Foundation IncorporatedNational High School with respect to word recognition and comprehension skills. Participants were the incoming grade 7 students who were gauged as Frustration Readers from the reading assessment given during the early Registration and grade 7 enrollment. Purposive sampling was done to determine the respondents of the study. To validate the data gathered different statistical treatments like mean, standard deviation, and dependent t-test were used. Students were given pretest before the exposure to the summer reading program and posttest after.

RESULTS

Based on the results of pretest and posttest, there was a difference in the mean score for both word recognition and comprehension skills. The overall mean result after the exposure to the program is higher than 3.25 for word recognition and 0.35 for comprehension skill with the verbal interpretation of satisfactory and satisfactory respectively. Also, learners who are engaged in such reading activity showed development for there is a significant difference in the reading performance as proved by the result of dependent t-test with a p-value of ≤ 0.05.

DISCUSSIONS

Progress was vivid for there is a greater mean score on word comprehension and comprehension skill as perceived on the test results. The null hypothesis is rejected with a verbal interpretation of significant using the results from the pretest and posttest Improvement of word recognition and comprehension skill was shown after exposure to Project SPREAD (Summer Program for Reading Enhancement and Development). It is indeed effective, however, continuous effort and emphasis on enhancing reading performance should be given to improve their reading level.