Improving Reading Speed through Repeated Reading Intervention

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Reading is one of the skills that need to be developed well. Speed of reading boosts every child's confidence in new lessons and new things. Speed reading advocates claim that it is a great success and even states that it is a demonstration of good comprehension for many purposes (Buzan 2000). This study entitled "Improving Reading Speed through Repeated Reading Intervention aims to determine the efficacy of Repeated Reading of Grade 7 slow readers students of BINGCONGAN INTEGRATED SCHOOL. There were (47) forty-seven Grade-7 students who undergone the Phil-Iri Program and there were (10) ten students that belong to Instructional Level and (5) five students that belong to Frustration level on the division of Word Recognition.

METHODS

Repeated Reading is an intervention that helps to enhance the reading speed of Grade-7 slow readers of Bingcongan Integrated School. This intervention program was done for (4) four months, starting from October 2017 to January 2018. The program was done by a series of repeated reading activity. All the four reading passages were selected from the Phil-IRI Program. Each story contained topics and themes commonly found in the literature. Also, the student had no prior exposure to these reading passages. The intervention which is the repeated reading has been applied 4 times in each passage before the criterion has met.

RESULTS

There were (10) ten students that belong to Instructional Level and (5) five students that belong to Frustration level on the division of Word Recognition before the repeated reading intervention conducted. After reviewing all of the data, the researcher determines several themes across the data. These themes are: increase in words per minute, increase in words correct per minute, increase in reading rate, and decrease in oral reading miscues, including significant miscues.

DISCUSSIONS

After the application of intervention to the identified students under the study, there is an increase in the reading speed. In the conduct of repeated reading intervention, the researcher found out that the reading speed of the identified grade 7 students has improved. There is a significant change in the reading speed of the student if the word recognition is enhanced; as the miscues decrease, the reading speed increases. Repeated reading is an effective intervention to enhance the reading speed of the slow readers and exposure to the different reading text will enhance the reading speed and also for comprehension.