Macroskills of Grade Five Learners in Selected Schools of Santa Maria District

ELVIN JAKE R. EMPLEO. December 2023. MACROSKILLS OF GRADE FIVE LEARNERS IN SELECTED SCHOOLS OF SANTA MARIA DISTRICT. MAED Major in Educational Management. Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College, Graduate School, Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur. Adviser: Jocelyn L. Absolor, EdD The study aimed to assess the macroskills of grade five learners in selected schools of Santa Maria District, Division of Ilocos Sur during the Academic Year 2024-2025. It specifically determined the profile of the respondents along gender, educational attainment of their parents, available gadgets, and available reading materials. Specifically, the aim of this study is to determine the significant relationship between the profile of the respondents and the pupils’ level of macroskills. Further, it aimed to identify the skills of grade five learners that are needed to address. The study employed descriptive and correlational research design. A total of 49 grade five learners of the three selected schools of Santa Maria District serve as the respondents of the study. The research instrument of this study is divided into parts, first is the pupil’s profile, and the second is the activities to assess the level of the macroskills of the respondents. The activities are adopted under the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) 2018 for Grades Five of Department of Education with additional reading activities made by the researcher. The statistical treatment used to treat the data was spearman rank correlation. Findings revealed that in terms of the profile of the respondents, male and female respondents were not equal; female are more dominant which is 30 than male respondents which is 19. Most of the mothers of the respondents are highschool graduate which is 23 or 46.9% and only 2 finished their doctoral degree. Most of the fathers of the respondents are college graduate which is 22 or 44.9% while 8 graduated in elementary. Most of the respondents have available gadgets in their home which can they can use to enhance their macroskills. Likewise, respondents have available reading materials that can aid to the development of their macroskills. The respondents had obtained a descriptive rating of “excellent” both in their reading and listening skills while respondents had obtained a descriptive rating of “very good” both in their speaking and writing skills. As regards to the relationship between the profile of the respondents and the level of macroskills of the grade five learners, gender has a significant relationship with their speaking skill. The educational attainment of the parents of respondents has a significant relationship with their speaking skill. In terms of available gadgets of the respondents in their home, there’s an inversely relationship between basic cellphone and with their speaking skill. There is also inverse relationship between smartphone to the reading skill of the respondents. There’s a significant relationship between tablet and the writing skill of the respondents. In terms of the available reading materials of the respondents, it shows that there is an inverse relationship between the speaking skill of the respondents with their listening skill. Based on the results gathered, it is found out that the listening and reading skills of the respondents are more developed compared to their speaking and writing skill. Most of respondents in writing skills are found to struggle with basic grammar, have limited vocabulary and difficulty in paragraph development while in their speaking skill, respondents are observed to have weakness to speak in front because of having limited vocabulary and pronunciation anxiety. Based on the above-cited findings and the results of the conducted study, the following are hereby recommended, first, the teacher must provide more guidance to the parents especially in developing the macroskills of the learners. Parents or any member of the family should provide an ample time to the learners to guide them and teach them at home. Second, the teacher should create and implement more learning interventions in order to help those learners who are struggling in developing their macroskills. Teachers should continue giving and providing learners enrichment activities to further develop their skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Additionally, grade five teachers shall conntinue to develop professionally by attending seminars and trainings that relevant to the development of the macroskills of the grade five learners. Teachers must address immediately the learning difficulties of learners to avoid worst cases that could result on learning disorders.