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ISSN: 2782- 893X
eISSN: 2799-0664

Effectiveness Of Graphics Organizers to The Reading Comprehension Of The Grade 6 Pupils In English

IJAMS Publisher

AUTHOR(S)

MARICAR ARPON DE PAZ



ABSTRACT

— This study is conducted to determine the effectiveness of Graphic Organizers to the Reading Comprehension of the Grade 6 Pupils in English in Palarao Elementary School in the Division of Leyte. The findings of the study will be the bases for Reading Intervention Plan. This study utilized Quasi-Experimental research design to determine the Effectiveness of graphic organizers to the test of difference between the scores in the pre-test and posttest reading performances of the grade 6 learners who is the respondents of the study. The test of difference between the scores in the pre-test and posttest reading performances of the grade 6 learners who are the respondents of the study. In this table, it reveals how the respondents responded the pre and post reading validation before and after the integration of the Graphic organizers through the use of the different reading materials utilized by the teacherresearcher in teaching the learners how to improve their reading skills specially in improving their comprehension skills. The integration of the intervention was lasted for 4 weeks in the implementation or to exact 1 month in the reading implementation. Based on the findings of the study on the integration of the intervention there were positive result or significant impact brought about by the graphic organizers particularly to the comprehension skills of the learners considering that there was an increase of performance rating in reading after the teacher researcher was delivered for 4 weeks the different learning competencies in reading. Based from the results, it was revealed that the pretest scores gained by the grade 6 learners before they exposed to the graphic organizers in teaching reading and validating their reading and comprehension skills which is much lower compared to the scores gained by the Grade 6 learners after they have received the intervention which was resulted to the performance which specifically the computed T value and found out be greater than the computed T value. These results on the computed T and the critical T value makes the results significant and the hypothesis which states that there is no significant difference between the pretest and posttest reading performance of the grade 6 pupils before and after the integration of Graphic Organizers in the delivery of the most essential learning competencies in reading is rejected. The results in table 3 implied that integrating the Graphic Organizers in the delivery of the learning competencies and teaching reading is significantly effective in improving the comprehension skills as well as reading skills of the Grade 6 pupils. Integrating the new reading strategies in teaching the readers specially to those learning readers who are really struggling in reading are really significantly important for them because they will be guided on what to do in order to improve their reading skills. This further explains that when the time learners received the intervention they have already gained the confidence to read and comprehend the articles that they have read and somehow they already love to interact with their classmates considering that they already gained knowledge and skills in reading. Keywords — Effectiveness, Graphic organizers, Grade 6 Pupils