Reading Difficulties and Comprehension Level of Grade Vi Pupils of Pinagkurusan Elementary School: Basis for Enhancement Activities

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The ability to read is vital to learning. Access to knowledge in various disciplines is made possible through reading. Thus, reading is said to be man's potent tool for learning. Comprehension is one of the most important areas of reading. It takes place when there is communication between the author and reader. One of the most vexing problems facing the elementary teachers today is that more pupils enter their classrooms without requisite knowledge, skills and disposition to read and comprehend the materials placed before them. The researcher is interested in developing enhancement activities that will remedy the reading difficulties of pupils.

METHODS

This is a descriptive research which aims to come up with a proposed plan of activities to enhance the reading comprehension of the pupils. The quantitative and qualitative information about the pupil's reading capabilities were used to identify the reading level of the pupils and to plan for activities of interventions to enhance reading comprehension of the pupils. To enumerate, the Phil-IRI uses a pre-determined set of criteria which include: the percentage of word recognition, accuracy and percentage of correct responses to comprehension questions.

RESULTS

Majority of the grade six pupils are at the frustration level of reading therefore strategic interventions were deemed necessary to employ in order to address the different level of reading difficulties by the pupils in terms of comprehension. The most common difficulties encountered by the pupils in terms of Reading Comprehension were word relationship, organizing ideas, making inferences, predicting outcomes, inability to translate ideas into written works, poor analysis and synthesis skills, mispronunciation leading to misunderstood meaning, and limited vocabularies. The proposed action plan and the scheduled activities framework must be employed and accomplished thoroughly and that teachers must work hand in hand to ensure success.

DISCUSSIONS

This action research would be a best solution to the school head, teachers, pupils, as well as the parents’ problem on teaching reading comprehension. This provides the essential activities or interventions that would best eradicate the problem with reading with comprehension. The researcher, after further reading and appreciation of the results of the study came up with a proposal plan of action which includes activities and curriculum objectives. The researcher is optimistic that if this plan of action if thoroughly carried out would contribute much in improving the reading comprehension of pupils. This research adheres to the need to utilize plan of enhancement activities which could best eliminate the problems in reading comprehension