Improving Reading Skills through "Multimedia Ko. Pagbasa Mo (View Me to Read)" Among Grade 2 Pupils

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Education in modern times encounters different challenges in social, economic and cultural, education, technological development, and mass media. Education nowadays is affected by the evolvement of science and technology. The young generation is growing up surrounded by forms of development that as early as primary school. Making every child a reader, one of the techniques to improve the pupil's academic needs is by helping them to develop their English language skills using multimedia in the process of teaching and learning.

METHODS

During the oral reading pre-test in the first semester based on the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI), it was found that among the 36 Grade Two pupils in Baras Elementary School, 13 had difficulty in decoding words. The prevailing result of the presence of non-readers and the challenge to develop effective educational initiatives encourages the researcher to conduct this study. After identifying the factors that affect the reading skills of pupils, descriptive and purposive sampling was used.

RESULTS

The data collected were analyzed quantitatively according to its relevance to the study. The level of reading skills of the pupils was transcribed to descriptive equivalents. The affecting factors of the pupils that result in being non-reader caught the attention of the researcher which prompted her to research what best strategy will boost their interest in reading. After given the interventions on reading based on the post-test results of the Assessment of the Phil-IRIOral Reading Test, a remarkable increase in reading performance among the Grade Two Pupils of Baras Elementary School is duly attributed to the effective implementation of "Improving Reading Skills through Multimedia Instruction of Grade Two Pupils.

DISCUSSIONS

Multimedia reading materials and environments offer a variety of flexible supports. Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading, yet it is notoriously difficult to instruct. Thus, they need to read engaging material silently and aloud and with ready support for words and concepts that they do not know. Hence, school performance will also be affected. Multimedia texts with supports for vocabulary development, such as linked mini-videos demonstrating a concept or dictionaries and thesauruses with text-to-speech capabilities can help students achieve this goal and improve comprehension.