Action Research Proposal

School Year; 2018 -2019

I. Title

Poor Reading Performance of the Grade II Pupils of Guipos Central Elementary School

II. Rationale

Philippines Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) Pre-Test Results showed that out
of 30 pupils who underwent the reading inventory pretest only 50 percent of the
class came up to be in the independent reading, and in reading comprehension. The
remaining 50 percent of the class represents the number of pupils who are slow in
recognizing words and in reading comprehension.

The purpose of this research is to identify the factors that affect the poor reading
performance of the Grade II pupils of Guipos Central Elementary School.

III. Review of Related Literature

Oral reading level of each pupil is categorized into three: the independent
level, the instructional level and the frustration level wherein a pupils whose
word reading scores is independent but in comprehension score is instructional,
his reading level is still instructional. If his word reading score is instructional and
his comprehension score is independent, his reading level is also instructional.
And so with one whose comprehension score is instructional but his word
reading score is frustration, still his reading level is frustration.

Reading problems is young children maybe influenced by a combination of

both neurological and environment factors, according to a new study.

“Children may fail to develop adequate reading skills because of their

environment, abnormal brain structure, both” says lead study author Mark A.
Eckert, Ph.D. of Mc Knight Brain Institute of the University of Florida.

The researcher found that reading skill and verbal ability were predicted by
asymmetry of the temporal plane, brain area that processes auditory
information. Poorly performing children had more asymmetry which is more
commonly seen.

Eckert and colleagues also found that although children from low-income
families performed more poorly on the reading tests, brain asymmetry had
similar effects across income levels. They also found that parents in low-income
families, identified though their participation is a government subsidized school
lunch program, spend significantly less time helping their children with
homework than wealthier parents. Children with both weak asymmetry and low
income demonstrated the weakest language mastery.

“I think it’s important to note that there were no anatomical differences in

children from different socio-economic environments. But if a child has a less
asymmetrical brain, improving the literacy environment becomes especially
important,” says Christiana M. Leonard, Ph.D. a co-author of the study.

The researchers aren’t sure why brain symmetry interferes with the
development of reading skills. “one possibility is that larger right hemisphere
structures might interfere with let hemisphere dominance of language
processing.” Suggests Linda Lombardino, Ph.D. another co-author at the institute.

The researcher note that the correlation between reading ability and brain
asymmetry on applied to right-handed participants. In most right-handed people
the left hemisphere dominates language processing, while language dominance is
unpredictable in no-right handed individuals.

Current studies are testing whether reading intervention programs should

be tailored to children’s anatomy. An understanding of how home environment
and brain structure affect reading skills may lead to more effective reading
programs, says Eckert.

These finding emphasize the important of rich early linguistic

environment, especially for children with less asymmetrical brains.

What Cause Poor Reading Comprehension?

Decoding Deficiency

This is simply educational jargon for the inability to sound out words. However, it
is technically more accurate to refer to it as a decoding deficiency because some
readers are able to recognize or decode a word while at the same time being
unable to pronounce it correctly. Some students, particularly those with learning
disabilities, need more structured and formal instruction in unlocking “code” than
others.

Attention deficit

This is basically the inability to pay attention to or focus on information received

by the senses efficiently and effectively in order to process it in the brain.

Poor Vocabulary

No matter how skillful person is at sounding out words, if he or she does not
know the meaning of the words he or she is reading, he will not gain
understanding from the text.

Lack of Knowledge Base

This refers to how much knowledge a reader has about the subject of which he or
she is reading. It actually goes hand with vocabulary. If the reader knows than
someone who has some knowledge about the subject.
IV. Research Questions

This research paper attempts to find out the answers of the following
questions:

What the factors affecting the reading performance of the Grade II Pupils of
Guipos Central Elementary School? How do these affect the reading
performance of the Grade II Pupils in this school?

V. Scope and Limitation

This research will be conducted in Guipos Central Elementary School,

Guipos,Zamboanga del Sur from January 5, 2017 to January 16, 2017.

This aims to determine the factors affecting the performance of Grade II Pupils in
Guipos Central Elementary School Year 2016-2017. This also looks into the possible
interventions which can be implemented in order to increase the pupils’ reading
performance both in English and Filipino for this school year.

Descriptive-Survey Method will be used in this investigation. The target

population is the 117 Grade II Pupils of the school through the use of simple random
sampling.

VI. Research Methodology

The population of this study is the Grade II pupils of Guipos Central Elementary
School. This is a quantitative research type that will use the descriptive survey to
investigate the factors affecting the poor reading performance of the Grade II
Pupils of this school and will utilize questionnaire-checklist as the main
instrument of this research. The data will be analyzed through the use of
frequency, weighted mean and ranking.

VII. Work Plan

This project will start on January 5, 2017 and will be completed within two weeks.

Parts of Research Proposal Time Frame

Title 1 day
Context and Rationale 1 day
Review of Related Literature 3 day
Scope and Limitations 1 day
Research Questions 1 day
Methodology 2 day
Work Plan 3 day
Cost Estimate 1 day
Action Plan 2 day
 VIII. Cost Estimate

The research cost includes the following:

Twenty sheets of short bond paper P 25.00

Computer ink P 200.00

Total P 225.00

IX. Action Plan

Activities/Strategies Data to be Data Analysis Time Responsible

collected Frame Persons
Preparation of Factors affecting Frequency January 5, Teacher Pupils
Evaluation the poor Reading Weighted 2017 to School
Instrument performance of Arithmetic January heads/Officials
Grade II Pupils Mean and 16, 2017
Ranking
Determining the Training needs of Teacher and
training needs of the teacher School
Grade II Pupils who Heads/Officials
have poor reading
skills
Implementation of The number of Pupils
the Philippine pupils who are in Teacher
Informal Reading the independent School
Inventory (Phil-IRI) level, in the Heads/Officials0
post test to instructional level
determine how the in the frustration
Grade II Pupils level
improved themselves
in their reading
performance

Prepared by:

CARMELITA C. GOLES, MT-I

GUIPOS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL