The effect of interactive teaching and learning methods on the reading skills of Iranian primary school students

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of interactive teaching and learning on the reading skills of primary school students. The research method is quasi-experimental. For this purpose, random sampling of students from two classes, one experimental group and the other one control group (a total of 40 students) were selected as samples. To measure the variables studied in this research, a reading literacy test was used. The questions of this test are based on an informational text and were selected from the prize test, and in the second stage of implementation (pre-test and after the test) have been used. The results of the analysis showed that teaching reading in a collaborative way had a significant effect on students' comprehension skills.