92 3 Paragraph practice
Instruction : Read the passage. Some words are missing. But the first letter of the word is there. After you read the passage, go back and guess a word for
each space. Write the word on the line to the right. Work with another student.
Annie Sullivan finally came to the Keller home. She came by train from Boston. Helen’s 1m …………and
father tried to tell Helen 2t …………..Annie was her friend. They could 3n …………. make her understand.
1. ___________ 2. ___________
3. ___________
3. Observation
As mentioned above, there would be two meeting of getting more on reading practices. The activities were classified in the improvements as follows:
a. The improvement of reading habit
The students reading habit was still the same with the previous cycle, as the students did the reading activities under the condition of the tasks was their
teacher given exercises. This way could send the discussion to find the answer to the last cycle.
b. The improvement of students’ reading strategy
1 The first meeting Indicators :
a Given some 72 word passages, students are asked to underline the main part of them, circle the specific words, and answer the questions based on them
correctly b Given a set of predicting ideas, students are able to answer them correctly
93 c Given 5 conversations, students are able to state what the topic is, where the
place is, and underline the clues The activity of previewing was done to gain the first indicator in which
three 72 word passages had been given to the students. Each of the passages has eight questions. The students started doing the exercise by underlining and
circling to make them easy to answer. One of their best result was listed; one student had no mistake, 5 students had 1 mistake, 2 students had 2 mistakes, 7
students had 3 mistakes. They had not been successful in doing the task. The reason came from students’ comment were 10 of them were feeling anxiety in
losing the information they need when they had to answer the questions. The nightmare questions which could not be answered got this worse.
The second indicator was gained successfully. As there were 4 students had no mistake, 6 students had 1 mistake, and 5 students had 2 mistakes, this
activity was not the problem anymore for the students. The third indicator got the same result to the first one. There were still
some students who had failed to answer the question correctly. Being more details, there were 3 students had 3 mistakes, 1 students had 2 mistakes, 3
students had 1 mistake, and 8 students had no wrong answer. This, in short, showed that reading short conversation was a problem to their reading activity
appendix 21. 2 The second meeting
This second meeting was set to gain some indicators, those were : a Given a set of part of speech exercises in incomplete sentences, students are
able to state what kind of words needed and submit the appropriate words.
94 b Given some word missing paragraph, students are able to state what kind of
word needed and submit the appropriate words . c Given some word missing paragraphs, students are able to submit the
appropriate words and give other possible answer. d. Students submitted their reading diary
The first indicator was gained successfully as the result of the students had reached the best score. To be more details, there were 9 students had no
mistake, 2 students had 1 mistake, and 4 students had 2 mistakes. The second and the last indicators was done the same way to the first one.
There were 8 students had no mistakes and stated 7 synonyms to the words, 3 students had 1 mistake and stated 6 synonyms to the words, and 4 students
had 2 mistakes and stated 5 synonyms appendix 24.
c. The improvement of reading motivation
