A Strategy Based On Tiered Activities to Develop Critical Reading Skills and the intrests towards Learning Arabic for Elementary School Students

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Professor of Curricula and Methods of Teaching Arabic   Educational Activities Research and Gifted Care Division   National Center for Educational Research and Development

Abstract

Current trends advocate that effective reading requires a critical eye; to evaluate what you read, analyze, and know why you read. All of this will help students to benefit from reading in their working lives. Due to the importance of critical reading, new strategies appeared to develop critical reading skills for primary school students especially in the 21st century. Tiered activities are among the most important of these teaching strategies that develop students' reading performance in the classroom, as they are a planned and intended strategy especially in multi-level classrooms. Thus, the current research seeks to define the effectiveness based on progressive activities to
     develop critical reading skills and intrests towards learning Arabic language for
          elementary school students.
                                                                      
The study adapted the quasi-experimental two-group design with pre-post measures. the experimental group consisted of (47) pupils and the control group consisted of (45) students in fifth primary. To achieve the goal of the research, a list of critical reading skills was prepared for these students, a strategy based on the gradual activities and the teacher's guide. To measure the effectiveness of the strategy in developing critical reading skills and attitudes towards learning Arabic in the fifth grade pupils; a critical reading skills test  and a measure for intrests towards learning Arabic language were prepared,  validated and  put in a  applicable form.                  
The results showed statistically significant differences at the level of statistical significance (α≤0,01 between the mean scores of the experimental and control( groups in the post-application of the critical reading test as a whole and on skills and each sub-skill separately and on the measure of their intrests  towards learning arabic language in the favor of the Experimental group. This confirms that the program is effective in emproving critical reading skills for the students of the experimental group and develop intrests towards learning their Arabic language.                                                                                                  

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Volume 65, Issue 65 - Serial Number 65
مناهج وطرق التدریس ( اللغة العربیة- الإنجلیزیة – الفرنسیة – الریاضیات – العلوم- الفنون- الاقتصاد المنزلی- التجاری ... )
2019
Pages 39-88
  • Receive Date: 29 August 2019
  • Accept Date: 29 August 2019