Enhancing Literary Comprehension Skills of Grade 7 Students through Artistic Visualization Strategy

Abstract

When students create mental pictures in mind, they will achieve a whole new level of understanding of literature. Thus, solving the problem of poor reading comprehension. Through explanatory-sequential design, it looked into the effectiveness of artistic visualization in improving the Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC) reading comprehension skills of Grade 7 Students in terms of comprehending Philippine literary text. Findings revealed that the artistic visualization helped enhance the learner's comprehension skills in reading literary text, and there was a significant difference between the participants’ pre-test and post-test performance after implementing the artistic visualization.  Based also on the students' experiences, artistic visualization ignites motivation, facilitates better comprehension, fosters creativity, and poses a challenge to learners. Based on the findings and conclusion, using an artistic visualization learning prototype on the students’ learning activity in reading is highly recommended.