Grade 9 Reading Strategies for Instructional Plans

Abstract

This study was conducted to propose Instructional Plans based on the effective reading strategies found out in the study. Specifically, this study assessed the teaching strategies for the reading comprehension of the grade 9 students in Talisay City National High School, Talisay City, Cebu, Philippines. The study employed the descriptive- quantitative method of research. The researcher-made questionnaire was used to identify the extent of use of the strategies utilized in students’ reading activities. There were 40 students used as the respondents of the study. It was found out that chunking for fluency, micro selection, word mapping, and inferences were found to be very effective in word and sentence level and generating interaction between schemata and text, read, pair and share, vocabulary role play, and connectives in paragraph level. Using the strategies in the reading activities, the performance of the students in the identified competencies were effective and very effective, respectively. These revealed that there was a significant relationship between the strategies used and the students’ performance. The author concluded that there are various effective teaching strategies for reading comprehension used by the teacher in Talisay City National High School.