3. Unit Design
After designing the course grid, the materials were then developed. The design of each unit is shown on the following diagram.
Figure 3: The Unit Design of the Materials
Figure 3 shows that each unit of the materials has four main parts: introduction, let’s read, reinforcement, and intermezzo. These main parts were
arranged in the particular way in which they are related one another. The first part of the unit aims to introduce the topic of the unit. For this
first part, the students have some activities which help them build their schemata related to the topic. In this case, the students need to recall their experiences and
Unit Design Introduction
Get Ready
Lets Read Observing
Questioning Collecting, Analyzing,
Communicating
Reinforcement Homework
Evaluation Reflection
Summary Vocabulary List
Intermezzo Some Facts
present knowledge. Eventually, it is expected that they will be ready to learn further through the activities in the main lesson.
The next part of the unit is let’s read which is the main lesson in the series of the activities for each unit. It consists of the tasks designed to lead the students
to achieve the competences that have been decided. The tasks are arranged by adapting the steps in the scientific method stated in Curriculum 2013. Those steps
are observing, questioning collecting, analyzing, and communicating. In the first step, the students read a text and observe the content, structure, language features,
or the other aspects of the text. They can write the items they have known and what they want to know further. Then, in the questioning step, the students
formulate some questions based on the things they want to know further and proposed the temporary answers for those questions. Next, the collecting,
analyzing, and communicating steps are combined into one as can be seen in the Figure 3.
The steps in the last part of the main lesson are combined in order to make the students carry out the task more easily. In the developed materials, the
students do not need to accomplish all of the activities in the collecting step first before going to the analyzing step and finally doing the activity in the
communicating step. The students collect the information through some tasks and identify it to answer the questions they have formulated before. Then, some tasks
also demand the students to communicate their findings to their classmates. The third part of the unit is reinforcement which consists of homework,
evaluation, reflection, summary, and vocabulary list. This part aims to give the
follow-up activities to the students after accomplishing the main reading activity. First, homework can give a chance for the students to have more practices. In the
evaluation section, the students evaluate themselves and measure their achievement. Then, the students can recognize their own success and lack in the
learning process of reading through the reflection activity. Meanwhile, to recall what the students have learned from the unit, the summary of the materials is also
provided. In addition, the vocabulary list is given to help the students to find the meaning of vocabulary they do not know before.
The last part of the unit is an intermezzo which provides some facts. The facts which are chosen are adjusted to the topic of each unit. This part aims to cool
down the students’ mind after finishing all the tasks in the unit. In spite of this, the students will also get some interesting information which indirectly can generate
more interest in reading.
4. The First Draft of the Materials
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