Effectiveness of Home-Based Reading Materials to The Performance of The Grade 1 Pupils in Filipino

AUTHOR(S)

Geri Ann O. Codilla

ABSTRACT

This study is conducted to determine the Effectiveness Of Home-Based Reading Program To The Performance Of The Grade 1 Pupils In Filipino in Linao Central School, in Ormoc City District 3. The findings of the study were the bases for the proposed Intervention Plan. This study utilized Quasi-Experimental research design to determine the Effectiveness of Home-based Reading Program in determining the academic performance of the Grade 1 pupils in the delivery of the different learning competencies in Filipino. The output of this study is to provide enhancement plan of the reading home-based materials that helped the teachers to create a more specific intervention that would help the learners to improve their performances. The test of difference between te scores in the pre-test and posttest reading performances of the Grade 1 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 Grade 1 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 Grade 1 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.