Effectiveness of Collaborative Strategic Reading and Story Mapping Strategy on Struggling Readers

This study examined the effectiveness of Collaborative Strategic Reading and story mapping on reading comprehension level of upper primary students studying in private English medium schools. In this study, pre-test-post test experimental group design was used Students of class VIII and IX^th from two schools of Chandigarh were randomly selected from different sections. In total 120 students with reading comprehension problems were selected on the basis of teachers’ observation who referred those children who are having reading difficulties. Raven's Progressive Matrices (Non verbal) test was administered on the selected students. The students who's IQ were between 90 and 110 were selected for further study which were 99 in number. Test of reading comprehension by Ahuja and Ahuja (2012) was conducted on these (n=99) students. Students who fall in below average level in reading comprehension were included for the study. In total 46 students were included for study. Twenty three students were randomly assigned to 2 experimental groups. Collaborative Strategic Reading and story mapping strategy were used to enhance the reading comprehension of these students. Mean differential were worked out to see the effectiveness of these strategies. It was found that both the intervention strategies were equally effective in enhancing the reading comprehension of these students.