Strengths And Weaknesses

Introduction Reading comprehension has assumed a major role in one's personality. Given the importance of it, it is likely that reading comprehension is one of the advantage of every individual. Reading comprehension for special needs is a modified way of reading to accommodate the specific needs of a person who may suffer from a language impairment. Reading is the process of retrieving and comprehending some form of stored information or ideas. Reading to young children is a recommended way to instill language, expression, and to promote comprehension of text. (www.reference.com). It is believed that reading comprehension was associated and connected with the school subject's around the world. It is a proof that reading comprehension is really important wherever you are around the globe. Reading comprehension has been defined as a process of constructing and extracting meaning from written texts, based on a complex coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985; Mastropieri & Scruggs, 1997). Students with learning disabilities in reading comprehension have difficulty associating meaning with words (semantics), recognizing and recalling specific details, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes, which is often attributed to a lack of meta cognitive skills. According to Bender (2004), meta cognition involves the overall planning of a cognitive task, self-instructions to complete the task, and performance self-monitoring, or checking to see that each phase of the task is completed appropriately and in the appropriate order(www.highbeam.com)..

In the Philippines 92.6% of the total population can read(indexmundi.com).This statement tells that almost hundred percent of the Philippine population is giving importance in reading and has an ability to comprehend on what they are reading. This research was aimed to help students in improving their weaknesses on reading