Effectivenessof Supplementary Worksheet in Enhancing Comprehension in Short Stories for Grade-V Struggling Readers at San Andres Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading as a field of teaching is considered one of the important areas of teaching if not actually the most important ever. Reading comprehension must be the basic consideration of all readers. The ability of the readers to understand what they are reading; interpret ideas and inject meaning to printed words is comprehension. Thus, supplementary materials of this study are hugely expected to carry a positive bearing on the teaching and learning of short stories by struggling readers of Grade-V pupils.

METHODS

The researchers used descriptive design to determine the effectiveness of supplementary worksheet in enhancing comprehension of short stories of thirty Grade V struggling readers at San Andres Elementary School. The survey questionnaire was prepared, validated, distributed, tallied and interpreted to determine the effectiveness of supplementary worksheet and to know if there is significant increase in Grade-V pupils score in the test after they used the said worksheet. Documentary analysis was used to collect the names of the respondents. Mean and t-test were used as data gathering instrument.

RESULTS

Learners have different level of comprehension during the Pre-Test administration of oral reading assessment. Based from the results, the respondents could not easily identify the characters, setting and plot with the weighted mean of 2.13, 2.34, and 2.39. After using the supplementary worksheet, the respondents could highly identify the setting, 3.53 weighted mean and could easily identify the characters and plots with the mean of 3.39 and 3.25. However, the computed t-value is higher than the critical value, the null hypothesisis rejected. There is significant increase in the performance of the pupils in the test after using the supplementary worksheet.

DISCUSSIONS

The respondents could not easily identify the characters, identify the setting and identify the plot. After using the supplementary worksheet, the learners could highly identify the setting and could easily identify the characters and plot. The supplementary worksheet helps the pupils increase the level of comprehension in reading short stories. A parallel study maybe conducted in the schools or districts to validate the results of the study.