Improving Five Grade Government Girls Primary School Students Reading Comprehension Skills in Sindh Pakistan

Abstract

The design of this study was a quasi-experimental study. The study was conducted in GGPS Gul Mohmmad Parhyar. The population of this study included all the fifth grade students of GGPS Gul Mohmmad Parhyar in the academic year of 2019/2020. Two classes were selected from the population as the experimental and control groups, i.e. Class V A and Class V B. There were 15 students in Class A and 15 students in Class B. Class A was chosen as the experimental group while Class B was chosen as the control group. The experimental group was taught by using strategic reading-SQ3R whereas the control group was taught by using non-strategic reading-SQ3R. The data were collected by administering a pre-test and a post-test. The data were analyzed using independent P test.The results of the data analysis are as follows. First, the mean score of the post-test in the experimental group (29.67) is higher than that in the control group (27.33). Second, there is a significant difference in the reading comprehension ability between both groups indicated by the results, in which the significance level is 5% or 0.05 and p value 0.000 which is less then 0.05.Therefore, our result give the evidence in favor of research hypothesis that is“There is a significant difference in the reading comprehension ability between the 5th grade students GGps Gul Mohmmad Parhyar in the academic year of 2019-20.

Keywords: SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review).

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-4-03

Publication date: February 28^th 2021