Improved Reading Comprehension through Reading Enhancement Program

Abstract

Reading is one of the important macro-skills that can greatly contribute to the success and achievements of an individual. Without proper guidance and support from the parents and teachers, too often, children encounter various problems in understanding the text when reading which leads to frustration and loss of interest. Moreover, researchers have found that one of the key elements in enhancing students’ comprehension is the utilization of different reading strategies. However, some teachers do not have a solid foundation for teaching these comprehension strategies. Therefore, teachers need to craft an enhancement program that focuses on improving the comprehension of students and on alleviating the reading difficulties that they are encountering during the reading process. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to improve the reading comprehension of students through a reading enhancement program. For data collection, the researcher demonstrated the reading strategies to thirty-five students of Grade 10. After, to measure the students’ reading comprehension, the researcher conducted a pre-reading assessment at the beginning of the school year and a post-reading assessment. After that, improved comprehension was shown in Table 3 based on the reading assessment that was conducted for SY 2022-2023.