Iya , paham Yes, I understand R: Merasa terbantu nggak dengan belajar seperti tadi?Did the
to give chances for students to comprehend text deeply. Besides, word meaning activities were also prepared to add their vocabulary items.
Two texts were given to the students. They were entitled Visiting Bali and My Holiday in Bali. In this meeting, the teacher
focused on the group work to make students actively involved in cooperative reading activity.
The text entitled Visiting Bali was given to the students in each group. The “reading aloud” activity as a part of CIRC method was
done in each group. One student read one paragraph in their own group. Then, the teacher gave the question card to each group which
consists of some questions related to topic, vocabulary items, the detail information of the text, and inferences.
QUESTION CARD Topic
Unfamiliar Words Characters
Settings Place:
Time: ActivitiesEvents
The writer’s
feeling
Figure 3. The question card
The group discussion was done to answer the questions on the question card. After that, the students were asked to write their
discussion result on the white board including the list of unfamiliar
words in the text. The teacher and the students discussed together to find the meaning of some unfamiliar words. The students tried to
guess the meaning through the context. The other parts of the text were also discussed together such as the topic, the characters, the
events, and the writer’s feelings. The last segment was giving the reading task. The activities
were not too different with the previous segment but here the students were more active independently in doing some tasks than before. The
text entitled My Holiday in Bali was provided to each group and some tasks were given to make students familiar in reading comprehension
activity. The discussion with the teacher was also conducted to find the meaning of difficult words and the story in the text. The group task
was in the form of answering questions related to the text.
1. What did the writer’s friend do on Kuta Beach?
……………………………………………………………………… 2.
Why did they return to Kuta very late? ………………………………………………………………………
3. Where did they see the art of the island?
……………………………………………………………………… 4.
Where did they spend their time beside the two tours? ………………………………………………………………………
5. How was their feeling during the holiday?
………………………………………………………………………
Figure 4. The group task of Cycle 1
At the end, the students did their individual task related to the text to know their understanding of the story of the text.
Tasks A.
Put a tick √ for the statements which are correct and stated in the story.
Statements Put a tick or
not
The writer and his family were in Bali during a week
They went to Bali by plane They visited Sanur Beach on the
second day Some tourists swam and played water
The writer felt happy although it was exhausting
They like stayed in Bali Beach Hotel because it was beautiful