IMPROVING THE

READING
COMPREHENSION OF
ELEMENTARY PUPILS
THROUGH TELLS
STRATEGY
A Research Paper
Presented by:
Jude Daniel Aquino
Marc Andrey Raza
Dominique Stefanny Lamoste
CHAPTER
I
THE PROBLEM
 BACKGROUND OF THE
STUDY
 TELLS Strategy is a reading strategy
that aims to improve pupils’ reading
comprehension by using to study story
titles, examine and skim pages for
clues, look for important words, look for
difficult words, and think about the
story settings.
 STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
 To improve the students reading
comprehension through TELLS strategy
of Elementary Students in Holy Spirit
Academy of Laoag.
 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STUDY
 THE STUDENTS
 THE TEACHERS
 THE PARENTS
 THE SCHOOL
 FUTURE RESEARCHERS
 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF
THE STUDY
 ELEMENTARY PUPILS OF HOLY
SPIRIT ACADEMY OF LAOAG
(GRADES 4, 5 & 6)
CHAPTER
II
REVIEW RELATED
LITERATURE
 Idol-Maestas (1985)
 The Advantage of this Strategy
 TELLS is an Acronym
 Klinger, Vaughn and Boardman (2007)
 The Primary Purpose
 The Procedure of TELLS Strategy
 Reading Comprehension
 Nuttal (1982)
 Smith and Robinson (1980)
 Clark and Silberstein in Anita (2006)
Conceptual and Theoretical Framework
CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
 Research Design
 Quantitative Research
 Locale of the Study
 Holy Spirit Academy of Laoag.
 Population and Sample of
the Study
 Elementary pupils of Holy Spirit
Academy of Laoag
 Data Gathering Procedure
 This research was held two cycles.
 Research Instrument and
Statistical Treatment
 Reading comprehension test
 SOURCES OF DATA
 Worksheets
 Academic journals
 CHAPTER IV
PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND
INTERPRETATION OF DATA
GRADE 4
GRADE 5
GRADE 6
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATION
GRADE NO. OF NO. OF NO. OF AVERAG AVERAG
LEVEL PUPIL THE THE E E
(BEFOR (AFTER)
S PUPIL PUPIL E)
S S
PASSE PASSE
D D
(BEFOR (AFTER)
E)
4 54 29 37 54% 69%
5 56 34 53 61% 95%
6 45 35 43 78% 96%
 RECOMMENDATION
1. For the Teacher
 The teacher can use the TELLS strategy to improve the students’
comprehension in reading narrative text. Using TELLS strategy in
teaching- learning process is an interesting and helping the students
to be more think critically. Moreover, using TELLS strategy in teaching-
learning process is very easy to be applied.
2. For the Students
 The students can apply and practice the TELLS strategy by following
the steps. It will help the students to solve their problems in
understanding a text to improve their reading comprehension.
3. For the Future Researcher
 The researcher suggests the future researcher to conducted
Classroom Action Research in using TELLS strategy to improve
students’ comprehension in reading narrative text. The future
researcher can also examine the effectiveness of using TELLS strategy
in the teaching-learning process if it is applied in Junior High School
and Senior High School.