Level of Reading and Understanding Skills at Wenceslao Trinidad Memorial National High School: Basis of Reading Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This research aims to determine/assess the level of reading and understanding abilities of students. The study was formed to explicitly determine the level of reading and understanding ability of students to carry out steps to solve the disparity between their grade level and expected reading competency.

METHODS

Respondents were students of Wenceslao Trinidad Memorial National High School for the year 2017-2018. This study was conducted through an individual oral reading test from the seventh to the tenth grade. Tallies and percentages were taken. The Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation statistics to determine the correlation between reading skill level and understanding skill level was also used.

RESULTS

Most students in Grade 7 are at the Instructional level of reading skills; in Grade 8 to 10 most students are at an independent level. At the level of comprehension skills, 6.38 percent of seventh graders are still find texts incomprehensible and only equivalent to twenty-one percent of the respondents freely understand.

DISCUSSIONS

According to the result, most students in Grade 7 are at the Instructional level of reading skills. While in Grade 8 to 10, most pupils are at an independent level. At the level of comprehension skills, it is noteworthy that in seventh Grade, 6.38 percent have a status of incomprehensible reading while an equivalent of twenty-one percent freely understand. As a whole reading ability and level of understanding is significant.