Reducing Cases Under Frustration Level in Reading Comprehension of Grade III Pupils in Sudlon Elementary School through Home - Based Reading

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

A good reader does not only entail recognition of words, but more importantly, comprehension of the written texts. Home plays an important role in the learning and progress of the child. It helps in the development of an attitude to explore and learn as well as improve their academic performance. In line with this reality, Sudlon Elementary School experiences poor reading skills of pupils. Some pupils recognize the words but they lack skills in understanding. The evidence of the failure of reading skills of the pupils is the PHIL-IRI result conducted by the teachers last July 2017. Furthermore, most of the parents are lack of follow up support in the reading which is common to all the pupils in frustration level.

METHODS

The researcher implemented home-based reading intervention to help the pupils under frustration level. Pupils were given one short story with comprehension every week. At the end of the week the researcher conducted OPLAN-PABASA (same way of PHIL-IRI) to monitor the reading progress and the score of the pupils and be subjected to data analysis.

RESULTS

After the intervention was implemented, the two pupils who belonged to frustration level in the pre-test advanced to instructional level. The pupils who were in instructional level advanced to independent. These are clear manifestations that the home-based reading intervention is effective in improving the reading comprehension of the pupils.

DISCUSSIONS

To statistically test the effectiveness of the intervention, t-test was performed at 0.05 level of significance. Results reveal that there is significant difference in the mean score of the pupils in the pre-test and post-test (p < 0.05). Further, it shows that post-test score is significantly higher than the pre-test score. This means, therefore, that the home-based reading intervention among the Grade3 pupils of Sudlon Elementary School was effective and was able to improve the reading comprehension skills of the recipients.