2. Observation Through observation, there were some data could be gained. They were about
how students usually behaved in the school, the way to read, what they were in groups and how students learned in English lesson. The data of the research study
was also completed by some photographs, the recording, the syllabus, the curriculum, the teacher’s lesson plans, and the year program of the teaching-learning process.
Besides such documents, there were also the course books used by the students, the tests or assignments and the students’ achievements.
E. Research Procedure
1. Needs Analysis The observation and interviews had been conducted in SMP N 1 Tanjungsari
to find out the needs. The instruments had helped the writer to find the needs analysis. The observation sheets were to analyze the syllabus, lesson plans and the
school’s curriculum, the teaching-learning process and the students’ behavior. Then the data were described. The interview guidelines give points of questions list of the
students’ problems and needs related to reading materials. It is the important thing that the first of the designing reading materials is to
find out what the students needs in reading materials. Through the need analysis, the information of the students’ characteristics and the students’ needs in learning the
reading skill could be collected. It could be the reference for designing the materials.
There were some activities in needs analysis of the sampled students of SMPN 1 Tanjungsari, Gunungkidul. The first was the analysis related to the students’
characteristics. Next, it was about the students’ ability, interest, problems and attitudes in reading. Finally, the needs analysis was conducted to understand the sets
of school equipments, such as syllabus, students’ achievements, the course books and the schedule of learning English.
2. Writing the Course Grid After the needs analysis had completed, the designing course grid of reading
materials was prepared. The course grid must be based on the needs analysis. The form of it was also encouraged by the theories from Tomlinson 1998. Using some
guidelines of the Tomlinson principles of second language acquisition relevant to the development of materials for the teaching of languages, the course grid was arranged
by the writer. The process of writing the course grid was based on Tomlinson theory that it
involves various steps. They consist of identification, exploration, contextual, pedagogical realization, and physical production. Identification was regarded by the
writer to create the creation reading materials based on the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Tanjungsari needs. Exploration was for determining suitable texts of
Descriptive, Recount and Narrative which are based on the syllabus for the eighth grade students of the school. Using Exploration, the relation of the tourism aspect to
the texts was also watched by the writer. Suitable ideas, contexts or texts with which
