Enhancing Grade 7 Students' Reading Comprehension Using Graphic Organizers

Abstract

Proficiency in reading not only enhances one's knowledge but is essential for a good education. In the framework of education, students must read any written materials about any subject area to understand and become familiar with the source (Nair, 2020). It is common knowledge that proficient readers possess well-developed reading abilities (Hernández-Chérrez et al., 2020).
Reading comprehension is thought to be a difficult activity that essentially requires two stages: decoding graphemes and extracting linguistic meanings (Tárraga-Mínguez & Sanz-Cervera, 2020). Along with this, reading comprehension is a necessary skill for deriving meaning from the text (Hasanah & Kholili, 2023). Reading comprehension is the capacity to comprehend and appropriately interpret the information included in a text (Grabe & Stoller, 2019),. Additionally, they pointed out that reading without comprehension is pointless, proving that the two are inextricably linked (Guo et al., 2023).
Students must comprehend what they read and derive meaning from it; simply decoding words on a page is insufficient (Lai & Mukundan, 2023). Students who are unable to comprehend are considered to be reading a blank page (Imsa-ard, 2022). However, problems including visual literacy difficulties, unfamiliarity with GOs, poor cognitive level, and choosing the right GO all affect how effective graphic organizers are (Lai & Mukundan, 2023).