Improving 2nd year prep stage pupils' predicting and summarizing skills through short stories

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of using short stories in developing predicting and summarizing skills for 2nd year prep school pupils.

The study followed the quasi-experimental design.

The participants of the study were 60 female pupils from El-weleda prep school for girls.

They were distributed into two groups: the experimental group (30) were taught reading comprehension by using short stories, and the control group (30) were taught reading comprehension by using the traditional method.

The instrument of the present study was a pre-post reading comprehension test.

The study showed the effectiveness of using short stories in developing predicting and summarizing skills among 2nd year prep stage pupils, in favor of the experimental group.

Key words: Reading comprehension, Predicting events, Summarizing stories