Effect of KWL Reading Strategy on Reading Comprehension of Grade Nine Students, in District Khushab
Keywords:
KWL Reading Strategy, Reading Comprehension, Grade Nine, Student Performance, Educational InterventionAbstract
The study was about the effect of KWL reading strategy on reading comprehension of grade nine Students. Nowadays, the KWL strategy, created by Ogle in 1986, is used in schools. All grades can benefit from this strategy of teaching reading. The researcher designed a study to check the effect of KWL reading strategy on reading comprehension of grade nine students. It was an experimental study with pre and post-test. The researcher makes two groups for this experiment. One group was controlled, the researcher gave no feedback, and this group remained traditional; the researcher gave KWL treatments to the experimental groups and saw the effect of KWL reading strategy. The objectives of the study were, (a) to find out level of students to identify main idea of topic, (b) to find out the effect of KWL Strategy on reading comprehension of students at secondary level. The study was delimited to only one public GHSS Mitha Tiwana District Khushab enrolled students in 9th grade in academic session 2022-2023, two groups were made from 60 participants. Group A (control group 30 students), group B (experimental group 30 students) of the 9th class. An achievement test of reading comprehension was developed to check co-relate prior knowledge to lesson, set specific learning goals and focus their attention while reading, reflecting on what students learned from the reading material. Different tests were used to describe the results like mean and standard deviation, for more analyses inferential statistical tools were used like, t-test. It was found that KWL reading strategy (what know, what want to know, what learned) positively effect on reading comprehension. It is recommended that KWL reading strategy (what know, what want to know, what learned) should be under observation of teachers.
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