Project Supplemental Reading Material with Audio and Various Activities in Enhancing Reading Skills (Savers): A Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers

Abstract

Project SAVERS (Supplemental reading material with Audio and Various activities in Enhancing Reading Skills) is a reading intervention designed for non-readers and struggling readers for 12-week monitoring of the learners reading level via google meet. This study aimed to determine the effects of Project SAVERS on Grade two struggling learners of Southville 5A Elementary School for the SY 2021-2022.

A descriptive design was conducted in determining the effects of project SAVERS for the Grade Two learners. The thirty Grade Two non-readers and struggling readers were chosen purposively under Modular Distance learning (MDL). The instrument used to get the answer in this study is the printed reading material. All the data were summarized in tabular form and subjected to statistical analysis using the frequency and percentage distribution and weighted mean.

The findings of the study showed that the researcher proved that project SAVERS was effective to improve the word recognition of the learners and their reading comprehension. There was an increase of 44% during the pretest and post-test after 12 weeks of reading monitoring. There was also a big improvement on the performance of the pupils in English Quarter 3 and 4 in their Learning module outputs.

Therefore, project SAVERS was effective in reading remediation to improve pupils’ performance. The more one has practiced, the more likely is one to comprehend what one has reading.

The study recommends that teachers could use project SAVERS as a reading intervention. Teachers and researchers could use this method as a basis for future studies for more insights on instruction that use repetition of words and similar studies may be conducted to wider scope using different population in diverse schools for better generalizability of the strategy.

For future research involving parent involvement, it would be beneficial to find out to what extent can parents contribute to adapting project SAVERS in teaching their children at home.