Reading Comprehension Ability of Grade V-Magnolia Pupils at Bolo Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The skills such as acquiring the correct meaning, analyzing the author's point of view and applying what one learns from reading to real-life situations are what constitute reading comprehension. In this study, the researcher determines the level of the reading comprehension ability of Grade V-Magnolia pupils of Bolo Elementary School, SY 2017-2018.

METHODS

A 42 -item test was administered to 21 pupils. The questionnaire was composed of three selections of 14 questions that represented the four levels: literal, interpretative, evaluative and creative. The results were calculated and interpreted.

RESULTS

It was found out that the Grade V pupils performed poorly in their evaluative and creative abilities. Thus, there is a need of a lesson plan/ model that leads to student's higher comprehension skills. Low creative ability ranked first with the percentage of 81.0 and both low evaluative and creative abilities got the same percentage of 66.7 which implied that Grade V-Magnolia pupils have not developed their higher order thinking skills. Their high comprehension ability needed to be reinforced. They did not perform well in answering the questions elicited by how and why. They did not have much skill in giving judgment and they could not generate ideas implicitly stated in the selections and their critical thinking should be improved.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrated a need in designing a lesson model using reading text from the newspaper which can be beneficial to both the English teacher and the students to enhance their higher comprehension/ thinking skills.