TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH SHORT STORIES IN ADVANCE CLASSES

Currently many schools are concerned about how to address the needs of students who have difficulty reading and understanding extended text. This study examined the effects of short story instruction on 20 advanced-level tenth-grade students to show if the method had an impact on student reading comprehension. . To serve this purpose, an instrument was used in this study: a reading comprehension test. We have 2 groups. In one, students were exposed to a method of reading instruction over ten weeks. The other just get the traditional way of teaching reading comprehension .The data obtained from the instrument was analyzed using t- tests. The result showed that students in experimental group did better on the comprehension test than those in the control group.