Reconstruction Program in Elementary Reading Using Blended Learning: A Qualitative Inquiry

Reading is important because it develops your mind and gives you excessive knowledge and lessons of life. It helps you understand the world around you better. It keeps your mind active and enhances your creative ability. Reading improves your vocabulary and develops your communication skills. It helps you learn how to use your language creatively. Not only does it improve your communication but it also makes you a better writer. Good communication is important in every aspect of life. The ability to read is an important skill in today’s modern world where so much information is transmitted in written form. People must have reading skills whether they are in school or not. This is a challenge to teachers at the elementary level on how they nurture learners to learn proper reading in their respective grade levels. This need is evident as educational studies on how to teach reading in a specialized classroom setting like the elementary classroom that indicated that teachers do not spend enough time teaching reading strategies determined that teachers often have only limited knowledge about how to teach reading strategies and tend to draw from what they learned in their own school experiences when comprehending texts. Strategies such as summarizing or asking questions are commonly used by teachers to assess reading comprehension, but they are rarely taught how to improve it. Indeed, on an overall basis, reading instruction in a regular classroom setting often fails to reflect scientifically-based practices. Lack of student interest and motivation can be quite a challenge for teachers to combat. KEYWORDS: Reconstruction, program, elementary, reading, blended, learning, qualitative