ABSTRACT
Title: ASSESSING THE READING COMPREHENSION LEVEL OF GRADE
SEVEN
Researchers: ALAMO, MARK VINCENT P.
ARIMBUYUTAN, KOBE M.
CEBALLOS, MARK KENNETH S.
GAMIT, KATRINA BIANCA Z.
TABOBO, KRISTAL JEN C.
Institution: GERONA CATHOLIC SCHOOL
This study aimed to access the reading comprehension skills of the Grade 7 students of
Gerona Catholic School during the school year 2018-2019 and to identify their reading strengths
and weaknesses. The descriptive method of design was used in this study. The study showed the
reading comprehension difficulties of the Grade 7 students as per result of the test such as:
sequencing of events as the most difficult followed by general sense of passage/ sentence,
antonyms and recognizing the main idea, tailed by the inference, followed by distinguishing facts
from opinion and synonyms and tailed by identifying characters traits and found that among the
content area tested, only in the predicting outcomes and drawing conclusion the students found
average.
Based on the result and findings, the following conclusions were derived: the students
difficulties was way below the developing level of proficiency in reading comprehension where
the students experience difficulties in all the components in vocabulary and in grammar, an
English proficiency test should be administered at the very start of the school year to determine
the baseline, the strength and weaknesses of the learners which would be the bases of the
language teachers and administrators to conceptualize better teaching strategies, incorporating
remedial reading classes, employing innovative approaches, and adopting collaborative learning
activities and utilizing reading games, language teachers must be given opportunity to gain
proficiency in teaching the language through continuous training and seminars-workshops that
would update themselves in language teaching and enrich their teaching methodologies.