Effectiveness of Short Stories as Remediation/Intervention Material for Struggling Grade Five and Six Pupils of Tangob Elementary School in Improving Reading Comprehension

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading is the primary avenue to knowledge. To advance in knowledge, one must forever learn more, study more, so reading helps to accomplish this. Reading words phrases, sentences or even paragraphs is one of the important skills a learner in the elementary grade should have. Reading with comprehension is the most essential one to ensure that learning take place. But comprehending test became the problem encountered by most of the struggling learners nowadays.In line with this reality, this study aims to improve the results of the District Oral Reading Pre-assessment result on July 2017 wherein our school had some Grade Five and Six pupils who were still in the struggling level when it comes to reading and comprehension as well.

METHODS

A qualitative method was applied into this type of study that's why it began on the first week of November 2017 and concluded on the last week of February 2018 comprising of 10 struggling learners. There was a comparison done in the pre-assessment with the mid-assessment and with the final assessment result, significant differences on the results were examined and analyzed. After the data had collected, through qualitative analysis was used.

RESULTS

The Pre-Assessment was conducted on July 14, 2017. There were 10 struggling pupils at first, with the help and close supervision of the teacher-advisers and with the support of some parents said pupils improved during the Mid-Assessment held on November 22, 2017. There was an improvement wherein some non-readers became very slow ones and the very slow became slow ones. After giving more phrases, sentences and short stories, the Final Assessment ones only three were left non-readers and the rest improved.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the results, it showed that in order to make the study possible, these must be continued to the next level to thoroughly eradicate the struggling learners. Those pupils who were in the very slow and slow reading level must be given more time for reading for them to be good at it. These pupils will be better learners if they will be better readers.KEYWORDS: