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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

REGION XIII-CARAGA

SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL SUR

BAROBO III DISTRICT

IMPROVING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF GRADE 2 LEARNERS OF LUAGON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZED DIGITAL STORY TELLING

An Action Research Proposal

S.Y. 2020-2021

JESSYL A. DINGLASA

Presenter

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I. Context and Rationale

 

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In Luagon Elementary School, the teachers evaluated the result in Phil-IRI last November 2020. Based on the result, most of the Grade 2 pupils could read but unfortunately they are very poor in comprehension.

 

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They could not answer even simple questions from the passage. This situation caught the attention of the teachers. Thus, they developed an intervention which is the contextualized storytelling to improve the comprehension skills of Grade 2 learners.

 

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The aim of this action research was to investigate the effects of digital storytelling in improving the comprehension skills of GRADE 2 LEARNERS enrolled in Luagon Elementary School through the use of contextualized digital storytelling.

 

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The comprehension skills of the students were measured before and after the teaching procedures of digital storytelling. Then, the teachers carefully assessed through observation, documents, and student products and the results indicated that digital storytelling improves students’ reading comprehension.

 

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II. Action Reseach Questions

 

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This action research aimed to improve comprehension skills of Grade 2 learners of Luagon Elementary School through contextualized digital storytelling and specifically will answer the following questions:�A. What are the scores of the Grade 3 pupils in the reading comprehension test before the use of Contextualized Digital Storytelling (CDS)?�

 

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B. What are the scores of the Grade 2 pupils in the reading comprehension test after the use of Contextualized Digital Storytelling (CDS)?�C. Is there a significant difference in the scores of the recipients before and after the use of Contextualized Digital Storytelling (CDS)?

 

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III. Proposed Innovation, Intervention and Strategy

 

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As a multimedia tool, digital storytelling is a means of educational technology (Dogan & Robin, 2009). Story or storytelling is literally a tradition of centuries. Communication through written stories, written books and notebooks used to build the core of the instruction.

 

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Today, new generation storytelling starts with digital storytelling which integrates pictures, music and audio through computers (Hett, 2012).Digital storytelling is a process that blends media to enrich and develop spoken language.

 

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Due to the problem faced about poor comprehension skills of the Grade 2 pupils of Luagon Elementary School, the researcher will conduct a meeting with the parents this coming January 2020 to discuss the reading intervention (Contextualized Digital Storytelling).

 

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The researcher will gather 4 local stories in their community and then it was presented by the Grade 2 teacher through digital presentation. The teacher will read the story first, and then the teacher will present the story for the pupils to read it again.

 

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The stories has 60 to 70 number of words. The teacher will present one story a week. After the video presentation, the teacher then will ask the pupils to answer 5 WH and 1 H questions from the stories presented.

 

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The intervention will be conducted to grade 2 pupils every 1:00-1:30 in the afternoon . The Grade 2 pupils will be informed by the researcher regarding the intervention to be done within 4 weeks. There is Pre-Test and Post-test conducted before and after the duration of the intervention.

 

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IV. Action Research Methods

 

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A. Participants and/or other Sources of Data and Informtaion

 

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The recipients of the study were the four Grade 2 pupils who scored 0-2 based on the Phil-IRI Pre-test Result for S.Y 2020-2021 conducted by the teachers of Luagon Elementary School, one of the multi-grade schools of Barobo III District. It is located at Sitio Luagon, Gamut, Barobo, Surigao del Sur.

 

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B. Data Gathering Methods

 

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The researcher prepared 4 local stories to be presented through digital presentation with 5 questions. This will be conducted within 4 sessions (once a week). The responses of the pupils will be observed and listed. Specifically, their scores in answering the questions.

 

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They were given 30 minutes to listen, read, and then answer the questions. After the time allotted, the researcher will check their work and record their scores. After 4 sessions of reading intervention the researcher will conduct a post-test using another digital presentation of a local story and recorded their scores. �

 

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Mean, percentage, standard deviation and T-test will be used in tabulating and analyzing the data gathered.�

 

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C. Data Analysis Plan

 

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The researcher made use of the following:�1.In order to give a summary of the characteristics of the reading level of the recipients based on their scores, mean was used;�2. In computing the reading comprehension, the formula from Phil. IRI was applied;�3. To employ significance of the study, the researcher used T-Test.

 

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V. Action Research Work Plan and Timelines

 

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Activities

Targets

Persons Involve

Time Line

Resources Needed

Conduct Phil-IRI pretest

Pupils

School head, researcher

pupils

November, 2020

Phil-IRI Tools

By classroom Advocacy meeting of parents during the releasing/retrieval of modules

Teacher

Parents

researcher Parents

November 3rd week

Call up letters

Submission of Action Research Proposal

School head

School head, researcher

November 3rd week

Letter of intent, Action Research Proposal

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IMPROVING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF GRADE 2 LEARNERS OF LUAGON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZED DIGITAL STORY TELLING

Activities

Targets

Persons Involve

Time Line

Resources Needed

Preparation of the contextualized stories

Teacher

Parents

researcher

November 4th week

Internet Connection

Reference Books

Bond paper

Laptop &Printer

& Camera

Implementation of the said intervention

7 target pupil

School Head

researcher Parents

Pupil

December 2020 to January 2021

Internet Connection

Reference Books

Bond paper

Laptop &Printer

Notebooks for the journal

Validation and analysis of data

data

researcher

February 1st week

Letter of intent, Action Research Proposal

Making and submission of report

result

researcher

February 2nd week

Action research

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VI. Cost Estimates

 

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Materials Needed

Unit Price

Quantity

Total Amount

Bond paper

155.00

1 ream

155.00

Flash Drive

300.00

7 pcs.

2,100.00

Ball pens

10.00

14 pcs.

140.00

Pencils

7.50

14 pcs

105.00

Internet Load

200.00

5

500.00

Ink cartridge (black and colored)

2,000.00

1 set

2,000.00

TOTAL COST

5,000.00

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VII. Plans for Dissemination and utilization

 

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After the conduct of the intervention, immediate dissemination will be done during General Meeting with strict compliance of the health protocols. Intervention plan may be done on the basis of the findings of this undertaking for full implementation and utilization of the intervention.

 

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VII. References

 

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