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c. Establishing Purposes for Reading
The students may not be ready to establish their own reason for reading; therefore, it is important for the teacher to encourage them
to get into the habit of doing reading. With a teacher’s help, students can often decide what they want to get from their reading when the
text deals with something familiar. d.
Motivating Students to be able to do the Reading The teacher tries to arise and develop interest in the reading text
to be studied. This may occur by having students recall from their own experientail background related to the content of the reading
text. These four activities will help to facilitate the students’ reading
comprehension. If what is done to facilitate comprehension is suffiecient, the students should be able to read the reading text independently and without
interruption.
2 Whilst Reading Activity
The activities in whilst reading are to lead the students to understand the content of the reading passage. The activities are as follows:
a. Skimming
Skimming is the skill that helps the students read quickly and selectively in order to obtain the general idea of the material.
b. Scanning
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Scanning helps the students search quicly for the specific information he wishes to get from the material, such as finding the
meaning of a word in a dictionary, finding the heading under which required information appears in an index, finding statistical
information in tables, charts, or graphs, and finding the answer to
certain questions from a text. c.
Reading for axplicitly stated main ideas The activities help the students to find ideas explicitly.
d. Reading for implicitly stated main ideas
The activities facilitate the students to understand main ideas
implicitly. e.
Reading for details
In reading for details, the students are asked to read the text to
find the detailed information. f.
Reading between the lines
The students will be able to do this by making use of the context in which the word occured, in orrder to give him a rough idea of its
meaning. The activities help the students to better understand how to
draw an inference. g.
Deducing meaning from context
These activities require the students to discover the meaning of a great number of unfamiliar words from the reading texts.
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3 Post-Reading Activity
Post Reading Activity aims at consolidating or reflecting upon what has been read and to relate the text to the learners’ own knowledge,
interests, or views. The activities in this phase are as follows:
a. Problem solving discussion toward the problem of the text
Problem solving discussion activities encourage students to talk together to find a solution to problem or task. Apart from organizing
the groups and conducting feedbanck, the teacher can have the
students on their own. b.
Doing a word puzzle dealing with the term of the text
These require learners to guess, use personal experinece, use their imagination and test their powers of logical reasoning.
c. Telling summary of the text
