Assess the Effectiveness of Story Map Technique on the Level of Comprehensive Skills among School Children in Kovilpalayam at Coimbatore

Abstract

Introduction: The story maps are graphic organizers of a story that helps the students to recognize the basic pieces of a narrative text.

Objective: The objective of this study was to find out the association between level of comprehensive skills among school children with their selected demographic variables.

Materials and Methods: Children of age group between 5 to 10 years, both male and female were selected. The study was commuted at 0.05 level of significant.

Results: The comparison of pre- and post-test scores on the level of comprehensive skills in the experimental group. The mean post-test score is 4.47 which was higher than the mean pre-test score 4.16. The obtained paired “t”-test value was 5.33 when compared to table value <0.0001.

Conclusion: The story map technique was found effective method to improve the level of comprehensive skills among school children. The findings of this study provided evidence that the use of story map and story map questions was effective in improving the narrative story among school children.