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THE USE OF PROJECT LAPIS (Learning Activities for Pupils towards Improvement of Comprehension Skills): A Teacher-made Activity Sheets for
Improving the Comprehension Skills of Selected Grade 5 Pupils of Bagumbayan Elementary School for School Year 2022-2023
Proposed Research Title

Reading comprehension has been a major issue for more than 20 years. Researchers have found that teaching reading strategies are important to
developing increased student comprehension. Teachers can help improve student comprehension through the instruction of reading strategies. Predicting,
making connections, visualizing, inferring, questioning, and summarizing are strategies shown by research to improve reading comprehension (Block &
Context and Israel, 2005). It is important to teach the strategies by naming the strategy and how it should be used, modeling through the think-aloud process, group
Rationale practice, partner practice, and independent use of the strategy (Duke & Pearson, 2005).
(Must be data- Based on the result of the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) for S.Y. 2019-2020, twenty percent of Grade 5 pupils were found to
driven to reflect have difficulty in understanding simple questions and fall under frustration level in reading comprehension. This is a very alarming situation, especially
the gap/s indicated) during this transition period from normal to new normal where pupils will have their home-based schooling under the modified modular distance
learning which will be implemented in the Division of Navotas City.
Therefore to ensure that the reading comprehension skills of the pupils will not be neglected even though on modular distance learning, the researcher
thought of this project. The researchers have seen children experience difficulty with the process of reading comprehension. In modified modular
distance learning, how could a child even start answering the modules if he struggles from deriving meaning from the text that he reads?
The area of focus of this research is to improve the comprehension skills of selected Grade 5 pupils of Bagumbayan Elementary School. Specifically, it
ACTION
will seek an answer to this question:
RESEARCH
How will the use of Project LAPIS (Learning Activities for Pupils towards Improvement of Comprehension Skills) help improve the reading
QUESTIONS
comprehension of Grade 5 pupils of Bagumbayan Elementary School?
The project objectives were to improve the reading comprehension of Grade 5 pupils using activity sheets designed using the six
comprehension strategies: predicting, making connections, visualizing, inferring, questioning, and summarizing. The teacher
PROPOSED researchers will introduce one comprehension strategy at a time during the Kumustahan in English. Activity Sheets will be given based
INNOVATION, on the discussed comprehension strategies. Evaluation will be given after each strategy before proceeding to the next comprehension
INTERVENTION,
AND STRATEGY
strategy. The pre-test will be given before the implementation of the project. The pupils will be asked to write a journal after each
(cite literature that comprehension strategy was taught. Research shows students improve comprehension when they analyze which strategy they are using
supports the study) and how it helps bring meaning to the text. One tool to accomplish this task is journal writing (Block, Gambrell, & Presseley, 2002).
The students will independently use the journal to record the comprehension strategy they used, and how it helped give meaning to the
text. Post-test will be given after the implementation of the project to assess how the pupils’ reading comprehension has improved.
- Participants
and/or other
sources of
data and Participants of this research will be the selected Grade 5 Numbers and Grade 5 Leviticus pupils of Bagumbayan Elementary School.
information Both quantitative and qualitative methods will be used to gather data. Data will be collected mainly by surveys, content tests, student
Research Methods

- Data interviews, and notes. Pupils’ output will be documented and analyzed. Post-test will be given after months of exposure to the activity
Gathering
sheets and a mainly descriptive method of research will be utilized. One tool the teacher researchers used to collect data, analyze
Methods
Data Analysis students’ use, and students’
Plan understanding of the reading strategies was an observation checklist. Once a month, the teacher researchers will use a checklist to
observe which reading comprehension strategies pupils used. Journals will also be collected once a month.

Results of this research will be shared and disseminated with other Grade 5 Reading Teachers of the Division of Navotas City to ensure that Grade 5
Plans for pupils will improve their reading comprehension skills even in home-based schooling. Results of this study will also serve as the basis for further and
Dissemination and future studies on how teachers can improve the reading comprehension skills of Grade 5 pupils.
Advocacy

Pre-Implementation Implementation Proper Post Implementation

Month
September- October 4, 2022 October 5- February 2022 March 2022
-Preparation of Activity Sheets -Post Test
Timeline

-Pupils’ Orientation -Pre-test -Data Gathering and Analysis

-Preparation of Parent’s Consent Form -Project Implementation Conclusions and Recommendations
Activities Preparation of Pre-Test Printing of the Manuscript
-Monitoring
Submission of the Final Research Output
Dissemination of the Study

Block, C., Gambrell, L., & Pressley, M. (Eds.). (2002). Improving comprehension instruction by rethinking research, theory, and classroom practice. San
Francisco, JosseyBass.
References

Submitted by:
ROSE ANNE I. PEÑAVERDE
Researcher- Grade Five Teacher/ Bagumbayan E/S
Approved:

PRECIOSA N. CABINBIN
OIC Principal – Bagumbayan E/S

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