This study determined the significant effect of utilizing CARE (Comprehension Amelioration using Reading Exercises) in improving the reading comprehension of grade 8 students of Banca-Banca Integrated National High School S.Y. 2022-2023. It specifically sought to determine the acceptability level of the components of the animated reading materials with regards to activities, text, sounds, and animation the acceptability level of the contents of the animated reading materials with regards to noting details, sequencing events, getting the main idea and predicting outcomes the level of students reading comprehension in using the animated reading materials in terms of pre-test and post-test and the significant difference in the reading comprehension of the students after utilizing the animated reading materials as supplementary materials in the pre-test and posttest. The mean and standard deviation were used to measure the acceptability level of the components and contents of the animated reading material. Mean and Standard deviation together with percentage and frequency were used to determine the level of students reading comprehension in using the animated reading materials in terms of pre-test and post-test. Furthermore, T-test was used as the statistical treatment to determine the significant difference in the reading comprehension of the students after utilizing the animated reading materials as supplementary materials in the pre-test and posttest. Findings revealed the following: (1) The acceptability level of the components of the animated reading materials with regards to activities, text, sounds, and animation was very evident as evaluated by the respondents of the study. (2) The acceptability level of the contents of the animated reading materials with regards to noting details, sequencing events, getting the main idea and predicting outcomes was very evident as evaluated by the respondents of the study. (3) The the level of students reading comprehension in using the animated reading materials in terms of pre-test and post-test of the respondents resulted from Fair to Very Satisfactory after they used the animated reading material. (4) The test of the significant difference in the pre-test and posttest of the students resulted that there is a significant difference in the reading comprehension of the students after utilizing the animated reading materials as supplementary materials.

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