FGD on Elementary Science

  SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS

a.   Eight (8) students were randomly selected among the Grade 6 students of St. Michael Academy in Meycauayan, Bulacan. I was only able to gather their first names due to time constraint as I was only allowed to talk with the students during their afternoon recess.  Students Were randomly chosen by their Class Adviser. They were Christian, Milca, Charmaine, Anna, Sophia, Rachel, Vince and Carmina.

b.     The students were led to a room and were asked to take their seats prior to starting the FGD.

II.           INTRODUCTION

a.     I introduced myself and they in turn briefly introduced themselves.

b.     I told them that for a period of 20 minutes, we will be talking about Math and Science and that I was hoping everybody could actively and honestly participate.

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Readability Tests

The article “A Comet” is quite short.  Two readability tests are applied to the first one hundred words: Fry Readability Graph Test and SMOG Grading System (See Annex A). Both results showed that the article is approximated to be well-suited for Grade 6 and Grade 5 readers respectively, which is a very close approximation.

       To justify, take a look once again at Chall’s Stages of Reading Development. On pages 153-154 of the textbook, Stage 3 refers to ‘reading for learning the new’ whose age range falls between 9-13 years old or Grades 4-8. The major qualitative characteristics and masteries by the end of this stage are:

1)      “Reading is used to learn new ideas, gain new knowledge, to experience new feelings, to learn new attitudes”;

2)      “Reading generally from one viewpoint”

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