A suggested strategy based on the interactive literature to develop reading comprehension skills in English for preparatory stage pupils

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of suggested strategy based on interactive literature to develop literary (poetry and novel) reading comprehension skills among preparatory school pupils.

The participants were 38 pupils chosen randomly form the first-year preparatory stage pupils in Future 1 school.

The Instruments of the study include literary reading comprehension checklist (novel and poetry) and a literary reading comprehension skills test.

An online literature course was administered to the participants.

The researcher who used the proposed strategy that is based on interactive literature characteristics and tools such as interactive novel and poetry program to teach novel and poetry for the first year preparatory pupils during the summer vacation of 2020 academic year because of COVID 19 circumstances.

The results showed that the proposed strategy based on the interactive digital literature had a large positive effect on developing both novel and poetry reading comprehension skills; regarding the mean differences, they showed also that novel reading comprehension skills (MD=5.026) outperformed those of poetry(MD=2.289).