Philippine E-Journals

ADOPT-A-STUDENT PROGRAM AND READING PERFORMANCE OF GRADE 7 STUDENTS

Jeeb Abelito | Marjorie Lumogdang

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

The "Adopt-A-Student Program" is one of the strategies for beginning reading and an enhancement strategy among struggling readers, non-readers, and slow readers, encouraging them to love reading. It was conducted among the Grade 7 students of Maligaya National High School during the school term. This study was conducted to determine the program's effectiveness with a module, which was evaluated in terms of its content, relevance, acceptability, and instructional quality. The students' reading performance level was evaluated in terms of reading word lists, reading phrases, sentences, and reading comprehension. The significant difference in the student's reading performance and the mean gain scores between the control and experimental groups in the pre-test and the post-test were tested. Based on the results, The "Adopt-A-Student Program Reading Module" was excellent and passed the qualities expected by the target users, which composed of the reading teacher and tutors. Based on the evaluation, the reading module meets 91% and above quality standards. The experimental group that utilized the program using the reading module got the highest mean compared to the control group after they underwent an intensive intervention strategy. A significant improvement was revealed in the students' reading performance after utilizing the program with the module, which contained various activities such as reading word lists, phrases, sentences, and comprehension. It is recommended that the "student's Adopt-A-Studentstudent's Program" should be adapted by the school and integrated into their classroom program, and the reading module should be utilized by the teachers during their class, especially the reading teachers during remedial class.