Do You Know? Attention Please Reading is Cool Let’s Discuss It’s Show Time

39 a. Do You Know? In this stage, there were some questions related to the topic. The questions helped the students to explore their background knowledge about the topic and build the curiosity about the topic, so they would be interested in the topic. Besides, at this stage the students were given a story and questions to build students’ mood. The teacher helps the students to understand the text and answer the questions.

b. Attention Please

In this stage, there was brief explanation about the topic; the concept of the topic. The students are expected to understand about the topic. Firstly, the teacher will explain it to the students then the students read it silently.

c. Reading is Cool

In this stage, the students were given a story, and then they read aloud the text in a group of three or four. Before the students read aloud in groups, firstly, the teacher read aloud the text. When a student read aloud, other students listened to him or her, and then correct the wrong pronunciation if there were some mispronunciation. By doing so, the students were expected to read the words correctly and enjoy reading aloud.

d. Let’s Discuss

The students worked in groups, then discussed the story, read aloud the difficult words, and answered the questions. In this step, the students who have high ability will help the students who have low ability in discussing the text. After finishing discussing in a small group, the text will be discussed in a whole PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 40 class. The students were expected to have good team work with their friends in groups.

e. It’s Show Time

This was the last activity. In this step, the students still worked in group. They were to make a story based on the command given or make a summary of the text. After that, partner checking; find other groups to check the writing. It was given rubric to give score on the writing. The teacher explained the criteria for scoring to the students. If the students needed help, they might ask the teacher. After that, they did some revisions then submit their work to the teacher. At the end of the meeting, the students had to write what they have learned in the box “what have you learned?” In this stage, the students were expected to be able to write a story and make a summary based on the topic that they have learned.

4. Preliminary Field Testing