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Titles 7
Myth From Gods and Goddesses Time
8 Exploration
Exploring the World 9
Folktale Long-Long Ago
10 Legend
It’s Believed to be True
Each of the topics requires 2 x 40 minutes and consists of three parts, they are: Unit 1:
1. Pre-Work 2. Get Closer to Descriptive, Recount and Narrative Texts
3. Check Yourself Unit 2
– Unit 10: 1. Build Your Knowledge
2. Show Your Skills 3. Check Yourself
B. Suggestions
The researcher would like to propose some suggestions for English teachers of SMPSekolah Menengah Pertama Junior High School who will
implement the materials and other researchers who will conduct similar research. 1. For English teachersinstructors
a. In implementing the materials, teachers should create a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.
b. To teach reading strategies to students, teachers should be strategic readers too. Teachers should enrich their knowledge about the various kinds of
language learning strategies and practice the strategies themselves. By PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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strategies teachers become good facilitators for the students to be strategic readers.
c. Teachers are expected to be good time managers to control the students reading process. Therefore, each student will not be either too slow or too fast
compared with others in the reading process. The students will be given the same amount of time in each section of the materials.
2. Other researchers a. The researcher expects further researchers to implement the materials or do
some observations on the implementation of the materials in classes to find out the weaknesses and the strengths of the materials. The results will be
useful as the guidelines in making the improvements. b. They are also expected to implement other variation of language learning
strategies which are not included in the materials designed in this study. They can also integrate Strategies-Based Instruction into language skills such as
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