Effectiveness of Project Reading Enables Advancement and Development (READ) in Improving the Reading Performance of Grade 4 Pupils

AUTHOR(S)

MARIA LUZ N. RADAN

ABSTRACT

—— Project Reading Enables Advancement and Development (READ) is a reading intervention crafted to help the pupils improve their reading performance specifically in the comprehension skills. Providing differentiated reading activities and materials which are suited to the ability and reading levels of the pupils are expected to help the teachers in achieving literacy goals of the pupils in the grade. Due to pandemic, most of the pupils found out to have difficulties in reading and understanding the passages read. Thus, with the implementation of differentiated reading interventions, the researcher crafted this research to help her in improving the reading performance of her pupils in Grade 4. Hence this study aims in evaluating the effectiveness of Project Reading Enables Advancement and Development (READ) in improving the reading performance of the Grade 4 pupils employing a quasi-experimental research design utilizing a researcher-made reading passages as pre-test and post-test. Simple percentage and t-test of mean difference were the statistical tools used to interpret the result of the study. The study revealed a significant difference in the pre-test and post-test performances of the grade 4 pupils in reading before and after the implementation of Project Reading Enables Advancement and Development (READ). Implementing Project Reading Enables Advancement and Development (READ) has helped in achieving educational goals like in improving the comprehension skills of the pupils. The differentiated reading activities and materials provided to the pupils and the remedial sessions given to them contributed much to the attainment of the objectives for this study. Thus, it is relevant to provide or formulate and implement intervention projects like Project READ for the pupils to improve their reading performance and achieve reading levels for the grade. Keywords — Effectiveness, Project Reading Enables Advancement and Development (READ), Reading Performance, Grade 4 Pupils