Local Media and Parental Influence on the Reading Comprehension Development of Grade Three Pupils at Balanga Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Grade III pupils decode words accurately but do not understand what they're reading or they cannot comprehend and their low performance level in reading has remained to be a problem in our educational system. This problem was gathered from teacher observations and teacher-made tests like pre-tests and has remained a problem in our educational system.

METHODS

No sampling procedure was used. Instead, all 49 Grade III pupils were used as subjects of the study. The data were collected through the researcher's recording of the number of words read correctly and the number of questions answered correctly. These were used as the basis for determining the reading comprehension level of pupils based on the following criteria:

RESULTS

From the results of the pre-test, 12 out of 49 pupils belong to non-reader, 17 in the frustration level, 14 in the instructional level, and 6 within the independent level. On the other hand, the results of the post-test are as follows: 2 out of 49 pupils are non-readers, 11 in the frustration level, 23 in the instructional level, and 13 in the independent level.

DISCUSSIONS

The above findings reveal that the number of pupils in the non-reader level in pre-test decreased in the post-test, whereas the number of pupils in the frustration level increased from 11 to 17. This indicates that those in the non-reader level moved up to at least instructional. Hence, data manifest improvements in the reading comprehension skills of pupils in general.