Philippine E-Journals

Colored Overlays: An Intervention Tool in Reading for the Grade Two Learners

Tiffany Ivana J. Geonzon

 

Abstract:

Reading is an essential element for a child’s learning and success. At the same time, reading can be very challenging, especially when the materials are unfamiliar, technical, and complex. An intervention tool is being used to alleviate reading difficulties particularly the reading rate of the learners. This material is called Color Overlays, a type of tinted filter and is a plastic reading sheet tinted with color and placed over text to eliminate a wide range of reading difficulties such as low reading rate, accuracy, and comprehension. This research investigated the effects of Irlen’s Colored Overlays on reading rate as an intervention tool for the Grade Two Instructional Level of learners, with a class teacher initiating the study and a teacher-librarian conducting the assessment. All of the 52 learners were screened with a vision test. They were grouped into two wherein only the experimental group used the color overlays as their intervention. The result of the study implies that with or without the intervention, the reading rate of the learners is expected to increase. Therefore, Iren color overlays have no statistical significance and immediate effects on the reading rate of the learners.