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Level Grade Grade · Grade Grade· Grade Grade Grad~·· Grade · Grade
RATIONALE 1 2 i 4 s a 1 a 9
OF THE Grade 10 4 34 99 165 91 19
ACTION
RESEARCH The table indicates that there are st.ill Grade 1O students who are
classified as striving adolescent readers. Four students were identified to
have Grade 4 reading level, 34 with Grade 5 reading level, and 99 with
Grade 6 level. This sums up to 137 striving adolescent readers I the
Grade 1O level. The data is alarming since these students are about to
finish the junior high school and to enter the senior high school.
The lack of ability to answer reading comprehension questions leads
to low reading comprehension (Hollingsworth, Sherman, & SaU,gra,
2007). This informs Instructional practices of English language teachers
to examine what best strategy can help increase the comprehension of
students, especially the striving adolescent Grade 10 level. At the end of
the day, reading is essential not only to school success but for post-
secondary options e.g. getting a job or going to college (Sanford, 2015).
ACTION
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PARTICIPANTS
adolescent readers based on the result of the Mccall-Crabbs Prereading Test.
RESEARCH • SOURCES The sources of data include survey questionnaires, results of the McCall-Crabbs
METHODS OF Prereading and Post reading Tests, and field notes.
DATA
The study will use the experimental method. Before the intervention, the group of
INFORMATION the participants who are classified as striving adolescent readers will take the
•DATA McCali.Crabbe Prereading Test. After the implementation of the intervention, they
GATHERING will take the McCall-Crabbs Post reading Test
METHODS
• DATA The data speeificttlly the results of the prereading and post reading tests will be
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reading lessons In
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the Grade 1o level of July
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2017 Reading Materials
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2. Conduct survey September
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COST e·sTIMATES ITEMS cost·· NUMBER TOTAL COST
PER UNIT
1. McCall.. PhP1.00 400..500 PhP1 ,500.00
Crabbs students
PrereadingTest with three
Materials for pages
Grade 10 each
students
2. PhP1.00 250..300
Materials for the students
survey with one PhP300.00
page
each
·s:· Reading · PhP1.00 250...300 PhP5,000.00 .
Materials students
, TOTAL PhP8,300.00
ACTION RESEARCH QUESTION How can SIM-PLE Instruction improve the academic
performance of student~ in Grade 9 Biology?
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Bernardo A. et. al (2008) Students' perceptions of science classes in the
philippines . De La Salle University-Manila Philippines Asia
Pacific education Review . Copyright 2008 by Education
Research Institute 2006, Vol. 9, No.3, 285-295.
Lacson, R. et. al. (2015) The state of science teaching in the grade
school; diagnosing issues and problems. Journal of Social
Sciences & Humanities Research
Jayson O. Caraang
Makati Elementary School
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engagement and motivation affect their performance and
achievement. Motivation is important element to learning since it
is the driving force for students to complete tasks that build
knowledge (Nguyen, 2008). Thus, this action research aims to
address the lack of reading comprehension and engagement
problems of some pupils.
All the pupils from one English Grade 6 class in one public
elementary school in the Division of City Schools of Makati will
participate in the study. The researcher teaches English in sixth
grade and will select the class that meets in the morning as
Action Participants participants of this study. The time scheduled to conduct the study
Research and to this class will be from 6:30 A.M. to 7:30 A.M. The chosen class
Methods Sources of is composed of 40 pupils, 21 boys and 19 girls, who are
Data approximately 11 years old and above at the time of this study. The
pupils to be selected for the study is characterized by well-
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developed decoding skills but poor comprehension ability based on
assessment tool like the Philippine Infonnal Reading Inventory
(Phil..IRI). The chosen class could decode text in English at the
instructional and independent level so that their comprehension.
will not be influenced by decoding skills.
The reading comprehension of the pupils will be assessed with
the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test (Fourth Edition, Form S) for
sixth grade. The test is timed and uses a multiple-choice fom1at to
assess performance in comprehension. The comprehension test
measures a student's ability to read and understand various types
of prose (MacGinitie et al., 2000). The GMRT consists of 11 prose
passages of various lengths and subjects, all selected from
published works (e.g., books and periodicals). The passages are
fiction and non-fiction, from various content areas, and written in
a variety of styles. Some of the questions require constructing an
understanding based on infonnation that is explicitly stated in the
passage; others require constructing an understanding based on
information that is only implicit in the passage (MacGinitie et al.,
2000). The GMRT measures reading comprehension skills such as
noting details, predicting outcome, drawing conclusions, getting
the main idea, identifying word meaning, and inferring character's
motives and emotion.
Aside from GMRT, the end-of-lesson assessments will also
serve as reading measures to determine the reading comprehension
of pupils during the course of intervention using the
Interdisciplinary Approach. Observation guide and researcher-
made observation notes will be used to document the
implementation of the lessons in line with the Interdisciplinary
Approach. Different indicators will be included in the observation
guide to describe the behaviors of pupils during the different
phases of the lesson. The observed performance of the pupils will
serve as indicator of moving to the next phase of the lesson. Then,
a detailed narration of the implementation of the Interdisciplinary
Approach will be noted for every lesson.
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"Relationships with Oneself and Family" and "Relationships with
the Larger Community and the World." The main text is a narrative
text while the expository text taken from other discipline is the
parallel text. Varied reading activities and end-of. .Iesson
assessment shall be given to· the pupils to determine their
engagement level and reading performance (comprehension).
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Intervention
• Data Gathering June 13, October 18 weeks
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2017 16,2017
Post-intervention October October 1 day
• Post..testing 16,)017 16,2017
Data Analysis October October 1 week
23,2017 27,2017
Writing of Paper October November 3 weeks
30,2017 17,2017
Cost Estimates This study will present different deliverables to accomplish
the objectives of each research activity. Research cost in
reproduction of research materials, reading tests, and other data
collection instruments was summarized in the table.
Deneme, S. & Ada, S. (2012). On applying the interdisciplinary approach in primary schools.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 46(1 ), 885 -889.
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MacGinitie, W, MacGinitie, R., Maria, K., & Dreyer, L. (2000). Gates. .MacGinitie Reading
Test (4th ed.) Riverside Publishing Company.
Nguyen, C. (2008). Student motivation and learning. Center for Teaching Excellence, United
States Military Academy, West Point, NY.