VOCAPOWER: WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 7

The development and validation of the vocabulary that is needed to enhance and strengthen the comprehension of Grade 7 students through identifying the least and the most difficult vocabulary skills and developed a validated vocabulary workbook. The Vocabulary Workbook covers important concepts and tasks related to Grade 7 curriculum guide in 4th quarter. Through an interview with Grade 7 English teachers, the study found out that the most difficult vocabulary development competency for the Grade 7 students is analogy. The vocabulary development competencies with moderately least difficult are Product and Raw material relationship and Part to Whole relationship. The moderately most difficult is Synonym. Pair relationship is the least difficult among the five competencies. These were then the basis of the researchers in developing the Vocabulary Workbook which consists of 30 vocabulary items. Subsequently, the workbook was evaluated and validated using the adopted and modified evaluation sheet of in terms of content, appropriateness and presentation by three master teachers. The result of the validation has shown that the developed Vocabulary Workbook got 3.76 overall mean which is highly valid in terms of content, appropriateness and presentation but for additional improvements of our material we recommend for further validation. Vocabulary Workbook is more convenient because the competencies items are beneficial for the students and teachers can incorporate it as an alternative approach in teaching.