Authors : Rita Ufuoma Akpojotor, Josephine O. Chukwu, Esther Onyinye Ogboru, Victor Sunday Ezema and Ngozi Chiagozie Okonkwo
Abstract: The present study sought to investigate the effect of synthetic phonics reading strategy on pupil’s achievement in public primary schools. To this end, 120 primary one pupils participated in the study. The participants were randomly assigned to experimental and control schools. While the pupils in the control group were taught basic reading skills using the conventional method (rote memorization), the pupils in the experimental group were taught reading using the synthetic phonics reading strategy. A pre-test was conducted before the commencement of the study. After 8 weeks teaching to both groups a post-test was administered to the pupils which comprise of initial sound identification, word reading, short sentence reading, dictation and writing and oral vocabulary/word picture matching. The scores obtained from the test were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics and the result indicated that the experimental group performed better than the control group in the reading test.
Rita Ufuoma Akpojotor, Josephine O. Chukwu, Esther Onyinye Ogboru, Victor Sunday Ezema and Ngozi Chiagozie Okonkwo, 2019. Effect of Synthetic Phonics Reading Strategy on Pupils Achievement in Reading. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 7414-7419.