Friday Reading Habit as Strategy to Increase Reading Performance of Grade 7 Students of San Isidro National High School

Abstract

The research was designed to determine the Friday reading habit as strategy to increase reading performance of G7 students of SINHS 2016 – 2017. This study adopted a qualitative data and quantitative collection approach to analyze Friday Reading Habit as an Evaluation Tool to Increase Reading Performance of G7 Students of San Isidro National High School (SINHS). Three research techniques of data collection were utilized in this study to ensure reliable data results and adequate descriptions of the phenomena: the pre -reading test and the post – reading test results, and observations. The researchers found out that the Friday reading habit as strategy has increased significantly the reading performance of the selected G7 students of SINHS. The target respondents for this study were the Selected G7 students of SINHS. 2 heterogeneous sections were utilized in conducting the pre – post reading test. , in practicing the Friday reading habit, it shows that it was evidently successful for there was a great increase with the performance of the selected grade 7 students of San Isidro National High School. The study shows that after having the treatment of the Friday reading habit as strategy, 2% was added to the independent reader, while 14 % was added in the instructional level and frustration level decreased 16%; (2) The majority of the respondents are experiencing the lack of parent’s assistance, their parents have no time for them to review and reinforce what they did not understand in school lessons and their laziness and lack of interest in reading; (3) The study shows a high difference on the performance of the students after having the treatment of a Friday Reading habit as strategy to increase reading performance of the selected G7 students of SINHS. It clearly shows that having this tool will successfully make students reading performance be enhanced. After a thorough analysis of data, the following recommendations are hereby made: (1) Development of more reading instructional materials which are validated by the Master Teacher to be more reliable; (2) Development of a Computer Language Learning Materials to improve learning attention and retention of the students; (3) Utilize the Friday Reading Habit as an evaluation tool to increase reading performance of the students; and (4) To validate the reliability of this study, more parallel studies in different learning competencies are encouraged.