Abstract

Education and reading are closely related. Gaining knowledge, expanding one's vocabulary, honing critical thinking skills, and interacting with people from all backgrounds all depend on reading. A young reader is able to think more clearly. Nowadays, there are many forces working to undermine the practice of reading, maybe to the point of eradication. Instead of learning new material in the classroom, students have received spoon-feeding training. Reading habits are most threatened by modern technology like TVs, tablets, and cellphones, which also account for the declining amount of reading that people do. During the investigator's trips to classrooms, she observed difficulties that students were facing when reading textbook content. Informal discussions revealing the pupils' bad reading habits were also held with the concerned secondary school teachers. Hence the present study is an action research which aims in improving the secondary school pupils' reading habits. The VIIIth standard students was selected for the study. The action plan was carried out in three phases such as Pre Intervention, Intervention and post intervention phases. It was concluded after a careful analysis of the results that the action plan's implementation resulted in better reading habits. The action plan's implementation resulted in an improvement in reading habits, as seen by the comparison of the Pre- and Post-test scores. This implies that the action plan put into place was successful in encouraging reading habits.