In this phase, data was collected to support the data before to prove that students’ understanding of narrrative text could be improved by using story
mapping method. Also to complete the data which has not be achieved.
1. Planing
In this cycle, it was begun from making new lesson plan. It was aimed to change some parts that need to be revised, also to select more interesting story and
easier to understand. This cycle was hold in the end of September 2013. Exactly, it began on 25 September. As in the planning season in Cycle l, here the
researcher also made preparation of teaching materials and media. Evaluation and post-action test 2 form also were prepared to get
students’ achievements in the end of this second cycle. The new texts were also selected to motivate students.
The teacher chosen ‘Why the Sun and the Moon live in the sky’ and ‘Lake Batur’
as materials stories in the teaching process.
2. Acting
In this phase, it was implemented the new lesson plan which had been made. Because this is the second cycle, the researcher emphasized and reviewed
schematic structures of narrative texts to the students in order to make them getting better understanding. In this phase, the students were also taught how to
paraphrase a story. Its aim was to make students were able to retell the story. Different with the activity in the first cycle, here the researcher shown a
story, then he give them a limited time to read that story. When the time was over, the students started to fill story map sheet with the information from the story
which they got, but they were not allowed to look back to the story. The first story was given Why the Sun and the Moon live in the sky the students were easier to
get ideas needed than in the first cycle.
3. Observing
In this stage, the students were observed to know whether students improve their understanding or not, then the teacher measured their achievements
between cycle 1 and cycle 2. The teacher found that in this second cycle, students
