ABSTRACT
This study delved on the relationship between learners reading comprehension and articulation and to create an intervention to eradicate the problem and to boost the reading level of Grade IV learners of Sta. Anastacia Elementary. The researchers approached Grade IV teachers and collected Phil IRI data. The researchers aptly considered the qualitative and descriptive as a research method. Interviews and data described the relationship between reading comprehension and articulation and the need for an intervention for uplifting the level of the learners. A reading module called R.A.C.E. (Reading with Articulation and Comprehension Enhancement) will be develop by the researchers that will be integrated and can be used as a springboard in English and Mathematics and can be a material to a one-to-one basis reading remediation. Findings revealed that in the Phil IRI English Pre-Test Result (Group Screening Test), the number of correct responses >14 for male is 79 and <14 is 32 out of 113, for female >14 is 58 and <14 is 18 out of 74. This means that learners have a high level in reading but in comprehension check-up, most of their correct responses fall in the literal and inferential. Phil IRI data reveals that learners find the critical questions hard to answer. Because of their poor reading comprehension, there is a big effect in articulation. “They can read the words, but they can’t understand”, (Dewitz, Dewitz, 2003). The researchers recommend infusing the reading module in their daily instruction and remediation. Implementation will begin on the third quarter of the academic year. There will be a close monitoring and a form will be provided to track their reading comprehension and articulation development.
Context and Rationale
Reading is one of the most important and macro skill in language that every person must master. It is a prerequisite of all learning areas. Learners with difficulty in reading may encounter also difficulties in all subject areas. It is a skill many people take for granted, but the act of reading and properly comprehending a text is a complex and interactive process. Reading comprehension is the understanding of what a particular text means and the ideas the author is attempting to convey, both textual and sub textual. It is decoding meaning from the printed text not only in single words or sentences but also the interrelationships among the sentences in discourse while articulation is an act of expressing something in a coherent verbal form, or an aspect of pronunciation involving the articulatory organs. Primary teachers of Sta. Anastacia Elementary School focused on the reading skills of the learners. They developed reading materials to help learners on their reading skills. The learners keep on practicing their skills in reading without practicing their reading comprehension, nuances like these can become lost. And so, it can happen that someone may find themselves reading, but not truly comprehending the full meaning of text. This is what the Grade IV teachers notice in a longitudinal observation on reading comprehension, that many of their learners find it difficult to articulate during comprehension check-up after reading an article or short story. They consider it a problem because if they cannot articulate it means that they did not understand what they read. These made the researchers conducted a study, to know and assess if articulation is related or connected with their reading and comprehension skill and what probable intervention is suggested for this research. This will help on enriching their reading comprehension and articulation that would help them in expressing themselves and reasoning out during comprehension checkup or even during class discussion.
INNOVATION, INTERVENTION, AND STRATEGY
PROJECT R.A.C.E. (Reading Articulation and Comprehension Enhancement). An Intervention in Reading Comprehension and Articulation in Grade IV Learners of Sta. Anastacia Elementary School. This intervention in reading comprehension and articulation is designed as a reading material suited for Grade IV learners of Sta. Anastacia Elementary School for the whole year and aims solely for increasing their reading levels. This will be a corrective approach that will help learners to be not only good readers but learners who can comprehend and articulate. This will include short stories and poems with questions involving literal, inferential and critical. It will be integrated and can be used as a springboard in English and Mathematics and can also be used on a one-to-one basis during reading remediation.
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