ENHANCING THE READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE USING

LITERARY DRILL PIECES IN FILIPINO OF GRADE 9 STUDENTS OF

TAMBOBONG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

An Action Research Project Presented to the

Faculty of the School of Graduate & Professional Studies

University of Pangasinan – PHINMA

Dagupan City

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for the Degree

Master in Education

By

JACQUELYN M. QUISAY

Tambobong National High School

2019

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 School of Professional and Graduate Studies
PHINMA-UNIVERSITY OF PANGASINAN
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APPROVAL SHEET

In partial fulfillment of course requirements for the degree Master in

Education (M.Ed.) major in Educational Leadership, this Action Research
entitled, “ENHANCING THE READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE
USING LITERARY DRILL PIECES IN FILIPINO OF GRADE 9 STUDENTS
OF TAMBOBONG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL,” prepared and submitted by
JACQUELYN M. QUISAY is hereby approved.

MARILOU J. CASING, Ed.D.

Professor/Adviser

Approved:

JOSEPH RICHARD O. MEJIA, Ed.D.

Dean, School of Graduate and Professional Studies

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The writer wishes to acknowledge and express her deepest gratitude to

all those who have heartily helped her in the realization and successful

completion of this nerve-wrecking study.

Her loving family and friends, for the love, understanding,

encouragement and prayers extended to the researcher during the conduct

of this study;

And above all, the Divine Providence, for His endless grace and

blessings to the writer in all her undertakings especially the fruitful outcome

of this work.

JACQUELYN M. QUISAY

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 ABSTRACT

The researcher made an intervention in order to help the students

who are slow readers with poor comprehension among the Grade 9 learners.

In this study, the researcher employed a one-group pre-test post test

experimental design to the ten (10) Grade 9 poor reader students. The study

used the purposive sampling in getting the respondents since the strategy is

intended only to poor reader students of the Grade 9 curriculum. In this

study, the researcher emphasized the importance of the literary drill pieces

as a strategy to the poor reader with slow comprehension. The learners were

exposed with three different reading materials prepared by the researcher

consisting of poems, short stories and essays to comprehend. Pre-test was

administered before the intervention and post-test after to evaluate the level

of performances of the respondents. After the administration of the post-

test, results showed that the intervention is effective with 18 percent

increase in the performance of the respondents. The intervention is highly

recommended for use to the students with poor comprehension.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title ……………………………………… I

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Approval Sheet ………………………………………. II

Acknowledgment ……………………………………… III

Abstract ……………………………………… IV

Table of Contents ……………………………………… V

CHAPTER I: SITUATION ………………………………………. 1

A. National Context of the Problem …………………………………

B. School Situation ……………………………………….

C. Classroom Situation ……………………………………….

CHAPTER II: PROBLEM ……………………………………… 11

A. Statement of the Problem ………………………………………. 11

B. Evidence of the Problem ………………………………………. 11

C. Possible Causes of the Problem ………………………………. 14

CHAPTER III: SOLUTION STRATEGY ………………………………. 19

A. Description of Intervention ………………………………………. 19

B. Literature Review ………………………………………. 20

CHAPTER IV: PLAN OF ACTION ………………………………. 27

A. Project Objectives ………………………………………. 27

B. Target Subjects ………………………………………. 27

C. Research Design ………………………………………. 28

D. Time Frame of Activities ………………………………………. 28

E. Evaluation Criteria ………………………………………. 29

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CHAPTER V: PROJECT RESULTS ……………………………… 31

A. Narrative of the Implementation Process……………………… 31

B. Presentation and Analysis of Results ……………………… 34

C. Conclusions ……………………………………… 37

D. Recommendations for Further Action and Study …….…… 37

E. Reflection ……………………………………… 38

REFERENCES ……………………………………… 40

APPENDICES ……………………………………… 42

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