Die invloed van 'n motoriekprogram op die leespeil van graad 2-leerders

Abstract

The importance of phonological awareness in the reading process is acknowledged, but that it is inadequate stems from a number of learners who still have reading problems in schools. Therefore, the influence of a motoric programme as an intervention method to improve the reading level of ten grade 2 learners by means of action research. The research group consisting of five boys and five girls with differing ages between 7 and 8 years receives mother t~unge: education in a primary school in the northern suburbs of Cape Town. Learners in the research group could not meet the national assessment standards as stated in the NCS for Reading and Looking (LO 3:3,4). The reading level of the research group was determined during a pre-evaluation phase by five Foundation phase educators using grade 2 reading material and professional observation recorded by means of open coding. These qualitative remarks were qualitively analysed to determine the impact the rnotoric prograrnrne had on the reading level of the group. The research group was subjected to a motoric plan consisting of big and small motoric movements over a period of ten weeks, three days a week for 30 minutes at a time. The programme was designed so that sensory systems and perceptual motoric processes would develop simultaneously as a unit as both are regarded as determinants of an improved reading level. Evaluation after completion of the motoric programme was conducted in the same way as the pre-evaluation phase, but with more advanced grade 2 reading material. Analysis of the data showed that the motoric programme improved reading levels with regard to fluency, speed, accuracy, synthesis/analysis and self correction. Additional observations such as extensive head movements, finger reading, bent posture, rhythmical swaying movements and conclusions made from sketches show a decrease with the best improvement at girls. The study shows that a motoric programme as intervension method supplies the necessary support needed to improve reading levels.