Number of Sessions Topic/Title Objectives Strategies/Activites
1 Sociogram
(Noting Details of the Selection Read)
Story: Wolstencroft the Bear
Ref: (http://www.childrenstoriesonline.com)
Author: Karen Lewis - to make a visual representation of relationships among characters in a literary text.
- to identify the main idea of the paragraph / story. Sociogram – is a visual representation of relationships among characters in a literary text. Students can make use of pictures, symbols, shapes, colors and line styles to illustrate these relationships.
2 Does It Make Sense Hand
(Identifying the setting, main character, climax and ending of the story)
Story: King Michael of Darkness
Ref: (http://www.freechildrenstories.com)
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- to identify the adjectives This highly acceptable strategy encouraged pupils to use a two – column note taking strategy. In the right column, they took notes to synthesize essential ideas and info from a text, presentation, film, etc. in the left hand column, they interacted with the content in any way they choose.
4 Dear Diary
(Changing the Statement into Questions )
Story: The Father of Christmas
Ref: (http://www.freechildrenstories.com)
Author: Daniel Errico - to give initial reaction about the story
- to be able to express their feelings about the story
- to express general truths and universal facts. After reading the story the pupil did the suggested activity.
Instant Reaction – this mad5e the pupil wrote freely as soon as they have finished reading a book. No rules here. Just write if they liked what they read or not and let them discuss why.
5 Are You My Mother?
(Verbs)
Story: Cow Tower
Ref: (http://www.freechildrenstories.com)
Author: Daniel Errico - to give initial reaction about the story
- to be able to express their feelings about the story
- to express general truths and universal facts. Pick out words from the story that can be associated with …show more content…
The module was consisted of 8 sessions. Each session had a planned activity that was connected to the intended lesson for the day. The other five slow learners underwent the traditional way of instruction.
The 10 pupils were divided into two groups, the experimental and control group. First, both groups were pretested with the use of Phil – IRI. The selected pupils were determined according to their performance in the first month of the first grading period. Among the 10 identified slow learners, the number of pupils who were in the frustration, instructional and independent level were also determined during the pre test and the post test . To establish the action research, the sessions were conducted according to the prepared activities in the module. While the experimental group was engaged in the sessions the control group underwent the traditional way of discussion. The respondents of experimental group received the one session per week for eight weeks. Finally, both the experimental and control group were post tested with Phil – IRI. Then scores from the pre-test and post-test were