From the explanation above, it can be concluded that PLAN Strategy can be defined as a four-step process for academic teaching reading comprehension to
facilitate the students in understanding a text efficiently. The steps in PLAN Strategy are predicting the content, locating check marks and question marks for the known
and unknown information, adding some information, and the last, noting the information stated in the students’ daily life and summarizing the whole topics stated
in the concept map. By using the PLAN Strategy in teaching learning process, hopefully the students can have a new experience in the way of doing reading
comprehension, so they were led to use step by step strategy in their reading.
2.8 The Procedure of Teaching Reading Using PLAN Strategy
The procedure of PLAN Strategy in teaching reading comprehension deals with the steps of how to make PLAN Strategy in teaching reading comprehension run
well. According to Cohen and Cowen 2008:219 several instructional strategies for both narrative and expository texts can be eased by applying PLAN Strategy. PLAN
Strategy stands for Predict, Locate, Add and Note. Each step can facilitate the students to make a deeper sense of what they read.
Caverly, Nicholson and Mandeville 2004:36 state there are many ways of interpreting and using the PLAN Strategy in teaching reading comprehension. But
before applying the procedure of teaching reading comprehension through PLAN Strategy, the teacher should use modeling, scaffolding, and the direct instruction in
order to make the students to develop proficiency at strategic reading as they progressed from guided into independent practice. Also, the students may understand
well how to apply each step of PLAN Strategy in their reading comprehension Caverly, Nicholson and Mandeville 2004:48. One of them, the process is as
follows: 1.
“Predict” refers to predicting the content of the text by looking at the title first as a before reading phase. The students can activate their prior
knowledge in predicting what content will the story presents. After they
get the content in their mind, they are allowed to scan quickly the text to find out the information and match of what they have predicted before.
The information can be such as the key words, phrases, supporting ideas, highlighted words and many others. Then the students write it down the
information in their graphic organizer provided. 2.
“Locate” is the first during reading phase in this strategy. The students have to put check marks in the information that they have well known
enough and put question marks to the unknown information. While putting either check marks or question marks, the students are full responsible
with their decision by showing the supporting information that can strengthen their answer.
3. “Add” as the second during reading phase is vital step. In this step, the
students are required to read through the text comprehensively in order to add some new relevant information to the question marked topics. By
reading the text, they can verify their answer for the check marked topics as well.
4. “Note” stands for the last step in the PLAN Strategy as after reading
phase. In this step, the students may summarize the concept map they created before into a simple short text that telling the whole story from the
text. Besides, from the summary they make, the students can be eased while doing some relevant tasks related to the text. And as their individual
benefit, they can take some information for their daily life, such as moral value, which is the researcher intentionally conduct a research using a
narrative text. Based on the statement above, the researcher applies the process above in this
research.
2.9 The Advantages and the Disadvantages of Using PLAN Strategy in Reading
