ABSTRACT
Techniques in teaching reading enhance the reading skills of pupils, clears up misunderstandings, builds successful business and personal relationships, helps in developing respect, and establishing a feeling of cooperation. This study utilizes the descriptive methods of research involving thirteen (13) teachers from the locale of the study. The following are the results of the study. The following finding were drawn from the study. Majority of the respondents respond very seriously in the common reading difficulties that prevent pupils from what they are reading. The respondents strongly agree on the reading techniques used by the teachers for improving the reading skills of pupils such as understanding the selection read, reading and annotation and reading progress. There is a significant relationship between the common reading difficulties that prevent pupils from reading comprehending what they are reading and the reading techniques used by the teachers for enhancing the reading skills of pupils. The action plan is made by the researcher to improve the reading skills of pupils.
Keywords: reading techniques, reading progress, reading annotation, understanding the selection
CONTEXT AND RATIONALE
Reading is a critical learning skill for all students (Clarke, 2011 as cited by Mendoza, 2019), as it is “the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language”. Understanding words’ meaning, analyze the authors points of view and aim for writing and gaining knowledge of new words are all very important reading skills to successfully accomplish the educational goals and expectations, which are required in the classroom settings. For example, having the ability to understand textual information play a critical role in helping learners to quickly locate information that is pertinent to the text, exclude information that is irrelevant to the text, and identify the important information to focus on.
Further, academic success also requires students to be able to understand, analyze, and apply information they gathered through their reading. The importance of being able to understand written materials increases significantly in all academic areas as students’ move from one grade to another.
In contrast, not being able to successfully comprehend can prevent students from learning, retaining information that they read, and graduating from school, which will negatively impact different aspects of their lies later on (Hoeh, 2015). Reading difficulties negatively impact different aspects of students, including their educational progress, self-esteem, attitudes about reading and learning, motivation to read, career choices, socio-economic status and expectation for future reading success (Woolley, 2019). In Santol Elementary reading becomes one of the problem encountered by the teachers having 3 percent of the population have problem in reading.
Based on the given information, the researcher is motivated to conduct the study.