AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the effects of written retelling strategy on reading
comprehension skills. This study also analyses the effects of written retelling strategy on pupils’
understanding of the story structure. This study was conducted in a primary school in Ipoh. This
study was conducted for eight weeks. A quasi-experimental research design with pre-test and
post-test was adopted to carry out the study. Pre-test and post-test questions consisting of
structural comprehension questions and written retelling were used to measure the effects of
written retelling strategy on the pupils’ achievement in reading comprehension and their
understanding of the story structure. The participants consist of forty eight Year Three
pupils (N=48) who were equally distributed into experimental group and control group.
An independent t-test was used to obtain the mean .....