Effectiveness of Directed Reading Thinking Materials (DRTM) On the Comprehension Skills of The Multigrade Pupils

AUTHOR(S)

Hanna Mae B. Suico

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to determine the Effectiveness of Directed Reading Thinking Materials to the reading performance of multi-grade pupils. The findings of the study served as a basis of a proposed Intervention plan. This study used the Quasi- Experimental method of research to determine the significant difference of the aforementioned variables. The researcher utilized Universal Sampling in identifying the respondents of the study. The test of difference between the scores in the pre-test and posttest reading performances of the multi-grade learners before and after the integration of the directed reading thinking materials in the delivery of the most essential learning competencies in teaching Reading for the multi-grade pupils. Based on the findings of the study , there was a positive result brought about by the Directed Reading Thinking Skills (DRTA) in the delivery of the learning competencies in reading considering that the pretest scores gained by the learners before the DRTA compared to the scores gained by the multi-grade pupils after the integration of DRTA which is greater than the critical t value which means that the hypothesis which states that there is no significant difference between the pretest and posttest performance of the multi-grade pupils before and after the integration of the Directed reading thinking materials in the delivery of the most essential learning competencies in reading is rejected which means that the intervention is significantly effective in improving the reading performance of the learners.
The result of this study further explained that integrating the Directed Reading thinking materials in assessing the reading skills or performances of the learners could help them improved and enhance their skills in reading because they will be processing, or they can already process on the different passages they will be reading, and they could refine them if necessary, specially to the words or phrases that could make them difficult to understand or comprehend.