The ability to read and comprehend is one of the most important skills that learners must develop to understand things in society, as most information is presented through text. Due to the pandemic, face-to-face classes have been prohibited for the past two years, altering the environment for providing quality education. It appears that the pandemic has had an impact on learners reading comprehension skills. This study titled HOT-QS Based Learning Material: An Input to Enhance the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) of Grade 8 Learners is supported by Blooms theory and other experts agreed that taxonomy was designed as a step process to perform at a higher level, one must first master lower-level cognitive processes. The studys main goal was to create a HOT-QS based learning material for Grade 8 students. The study used five (5) English teachers and forty-five (45) Grade 8 students from Liliw National High School during the school year 2022-2023 to evaluate the developed module in HOT-QS based learning material. The developed learning material was assessed using a questionnaire checklist. To assess the acceptability of the HOT-QS Based learning material, the mean and standard deviation were used. Furthermore, frequency distribution was used to determine the mean performance score of the respondents pre-test and post-test scores. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation (Pearson r) was used to determine the relationship between the respondents perceptions of the developed learning material and the pre-test and post-test scores. The paired t-test was used to determine the significance of the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores. The paired t-test was used to determine the significant effect of developing HOT-QS-based learning material on the reading comprehension of Grade 8 students. The pre-test scores were closely mastered, and the post-test scores were mastered. The difference between pre-test and post-test scores is significant. The level of development of HOT-QS Based Learning Material is Highly Acceptable in terms of its Objectives, Contents, Process, and Evaluation. The level of development of HOT-QS Based Learning Material is Highly Acceptable in terms of adaptability, aesthetic value, content validity, and usability. The HOT-QS Based Learning Materials overall assessment in terms of its components and characteristics is Highly Acceptable. The overall Assessment of the HOT-QS Based Learning Material in Grade 8 learners reading comprehension in terms of its Components and Characteristics is Highly Acceptable. It simply means that the respondent accepted the created Learning material. The pre-test scores were closely mastered, and the post-test scores were mastered. The difference between pre-test and post-test scores is significant. The researcher recommends teachers to invigorate their teaching styles by using the instructional material since the results of the study proved that the developed HOT-QS based learning material in reading comprehension of Grade 8 learners has significant increase in their reading comprehension skills. Teachers are very particular in their profession and know how to facilitate the level of learning even in the distance learning due to unexpected events to happen and used it to improve the skills of learners even learning at home and this instructional material can serve as enrichment activities.

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