Effectiveness of Four-Pronged Reading Technique in Improving the Comprehension Skills of the Grade 6 Learners

AUTHOR(S)

MYRA B. SALVE

ABSTRACT

—— Reading is a tool for learning other learning areas and competencies. It requires independent comprehension of the text read to fully understand what has been conveyed in the lesson. Unfortunately, after the pandemic, the education system in the Philippines encountered relevant issues on literacy making every educator to innovate their teaching strategies and approaches. And one of the innovations formulated to address literacy gap among learners is the integration of the four-pronged reading technique in teaching comprehension skills. Utilizing the reading passages in the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) to determine the reading performance of the grade 6 learners before and after the implementation of the intervention, the 29 grade 6 learners were tested. Simple percentage and t-test of mean difference were the statistical tools used to interpret the result of the study. After a series of activities provided in the implementation of four-pronged reading technique, the study revealed a significant difference in the performances of the grade 6 learners in comprehension skills before and after the implementation of four-pronged reading technique. The result of the present study suggests that the four-pronged reading technique effectively enhanced the comprehension skills of the learners, marking a clear improvement in their overall performance. The observed changes underscore the value of targeted instructional approaches in fostering academic progress and emphasize the potential for continued enhancement of educational methodologies to support student learning outcomes. Highlighting the application of four-pronged reading technique in learning to read and be able to comprehend what the learners read, has been instrumental in achieving the desired learning outcomes of the learners while enjoying and mastering the technique to improve the comprehension skills of the learners. Keywords — Effectiveness, Four-Pronged Reading Technique, Comprehension Skills, Grade 6 Learners