Abstract
The study sought to determine if the utilization of three reading activities in a remediation class for experimental (E) group of primary five (5) pupils who were deficient in reading would improve their reading abilities over their counterparts in the control (C) group taught the remedial lessons through the traditional teacher-centered approach. It also investigated if sex would be a significant factor in determining the performance of the treatment and control groups. Two research questions and two null hypothesis guided the study. The subjects were made up of 38 reading-deficient primary five (5) pupils randomly assigned to the two treatment groups. The data collection instrument was a researcher-made and validated reading assessment checklist, the inter-rater reliability coefficient of which yielded an index of 0.82 using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficients. The C and E group teachers received orientations on the approaches to adopt to carry out their task. Steps were taken to establish equivalence of the instructional conditions of the two groups, the only difference being the experimental treatment which consisted of the use of 3 activities: Reading chart activity, Paired reading and Command card game. After the remedial treatment experiment which lasted for three weeks of compact activities, the E and C subjects were tested with their class-appropriate reader. Results established the significant superiority of the experimental group over the control. Sex was not found to be a significant factor as no difference existed between the male and female pupils in the E and C groups.
Highlights
Reading is about the most important skill in the educational/academic career of a primary school learner
The results revealed that for the experimental and control groups, there is evidence that posttest scores were higher than the pretest scores across the five criteria that were tested
The experimental group that received remedial training using planned activities performed significantly better in the five tested areas than the control group that was taught remedial reading through the traditional teachercentered method
Summary
Reading is about the most important skill in the educational/academic career of a primary school learner. Fluency is the ability to read a text correctly, Mkpa Agu Mkpa /2019 smoothly and quickly with full expression and good comprehension It means reading a text as talking to someone by paying attention to the punctuation marks, accent and tonal, abstaining from reoccurrence and word repetition, without spelling and unnecessary postures and by paying attention to the semantic units. Fluency is the ability to read a text correctly, smoothly and quickly with full expression and good comprehension What will be the reading abilities of male and female reading-deficient pupils taught remedial reading through teacher-centered approach and those taught through guided activities. There is no statistically significant interaction effect of methods and gender on pupils’ achievement in reading abilities of reading-deficient pupils
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