content, and any other questions related to the text, they could not answer them.
3. Pre-test
In completing the data, the writer did the pre-test before conducting the Classroom Action Research. It was held on June 5
th
2013. There were 20 students of seventh grade followed the test. The test consists of 20
questions in multiple choices. From the pre-test, it was known that students’ mean score was 50.
The data of mean score from pre-test showed that there were 5 students passed the Criterion of Minimum Completeness KKM. The
standard of KKM of the school is 60. There were 15 students did not pass or still below the standard of KKM. From the data, it was known that
students’ achievement and comprehension in reading was poor and low.
B. The Implementation of Pre Questioning in Reading Activity
1. Cycle 1
a. Planning
In this phase, the writer made a planning for the action based upon the problems faced by students toward reading comprehension. The
writer determined the selected material and exercises into a lesson plan. Then, some texts were chosen as the text to be taught for
students. In the lesson plan, there were some kind of pre questioning activity relate the texts that should be answered before the students
read the texts. Beside of making a lesson plan, the writer also prepared the post
test 1 to get numeric data, in order to know whether there were students improvement scores from pretest to post test.
b. Acting
The action of the cycle 1 was begun on June 8
th
2013. The writer, as the teacher implemented the teaching learning process based on the
lesson plan had been made. In the first meeting, the teacher taught about reading texts and the topics are about daily life and an
environment. In the beginning of teaching learning process, the teacher told what the texts is about by doing the pre activity to make the
students interested in learning English in the class room, the teacher asked students to tell any information they know about the texts, the
things they were not sure of the text, and the things they would like to know about the text. Some students answered that they knew about the
texts, they got the information from television, magazine, newspaper and internet and some of students were not sure about the texts and
some of them did not answer the questions. Next, the teacher gave worksheet related the texts and asked all of the students to write the
answer and the information on a paper. After students answered the worksheet, then the teacher gave opportunity for some students to
share orally about any information that they wrote on the paper. Next activity, the teacher gave the students the texts and asked the students
to read the text. The teacher asked students to compare the information they wrote with the information they got from the texts. And the
students counted how many information matched with the texts. Then, the teacher asked students to give the worksheet back to the teacher.
And in the other time and place, the teacher check, edit and figure out how many percents the answers matched
Next second meeting was done on June 10
th
2013. Before students read the text, the teacher asked students to work in pairs. First, the
teacher gave some small piece of papers consisted ten categories related about past and present tenses. The students who got present
form of verb had to find other students who had the past form of the
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