b. The Course Grid of Unit 2
The course grid of Unit 2 was developed based on core competences 1, 2, 3 and 4, and basic competences 1.1, 2.2, 3.9, and 4.10. This unit focused on
degrees of comparisons. The input text used in this unit was descriptive text in the form of comic strips. The unit title was
‘It is better than yesterday’.
c. The Course Grid of Unit 3
The course grid of Unit 3 was developed based on core competences 1, 2, 3 and 4, and basic competences 1.1, 2.1, 3.12, and 4.15. This unit focused on
recount texts and simple past tense. The title of this unit was ‘Do you
remember ?’.
3. The Unit Design
The next step after developing the course grid was developing the comic strips for learning writing materials. The learning materials consisted of three
units. Each unit of materials was developed with the same design and sequences. Each developed unit was designed into three stages: introduction,
main lesson and reinforcement. The design of developed materials is shown on the diagram below.
Figure 3 : The Unit Design of the Materials
Figure 3 shows that the unit design had three stages. They were introduction, main lesson and reinforcement. The introduction consisted of
“building up” activities. Then, the main lesson consisted of “observing and questioning”, “looking for information”, “associating” and “creating”
activities. The last part was reinforcement. This part included “reflecting”
activities. The first part of the material design was introduction. In this part, the
materials focused on helping students have background knowledge of the topic that will be learnt in each unit.
The next part of material design was the main lesson. The main lesson part was developed using the sequence of Curriculum 2013, i.e. scientific
approach. Observing and questioning activities referred to observation and
Unit Design Introduction
Building Up
Main Lesson Observing
Questioning Looking for
Information
Associating
Creating
Reinforcement Reflecting
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