Please give your comments on the designed materials.

84 Dealing with the fact, the writer designed a set of instructional materials that integrate reading and writing skills based on Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition for the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Yogyakarta.

B. Purpose

The purpose of the designed materials is to help students in order to develop their reading and writing skill through narrative. Hopefully, the designed materials can also help the students to develop other skills in English; listening and speaking through cooperative learning activities given.

C. Content

The designed materials consist of eight units. Each unit is divided into five main parts, namely Let’s Think First, It’s Time to Read, How to Say It, Grammar Focus and Write Your Story. The time allocation is 2x45 minutes 90 minutes for each meeting. Those activities are based on Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition CIRC theory. The details of each part are described as follows.

1. Let’s Think First

This is a pre-activity to activate students’ prior knowledge and to introduce the topic. The students mostly were to answer some questions related to the reading text or to the topic being discussed.

2. It’s Time to Read

This part is the main activity where students did the reading activities such as answering the questions, finding the difficult words from the text, and discussing the generic structure of the text. In this part, the writer also included Points to Remember part to explain the things related to the narrative, for example the generic structure and the linguistic features. Moreover, the writer also attached some information about the kinds of narrative in each unit; it was based on the topic e.g. fable, fairy tale, pourquoi tale, myth, etc. 3. How to Say it? This is the part in which the students learn the suitable expressions in using language in discussion. The specific expressions or gambits given are very 85 useful for the students to discuss or work together in groups; for example Asking and Giving Opinions, Interrupting, Expressing Agreement, etc.

4. Grammar Focus

This is the activity to learn grammar found in the reading text. It is important in order to comprehend the text as well as to produce a good composition.

5. Write Your Story

This is the last activity when the students are to write a composition after they get the model from the reading text. The activity is firstly done individually then followed by group work activity. In this part, the writer also gave the writing activity as the home assignment. These materials are taken from 2006 Curriculum KTSP that has been modified by the writer to reach the goal through the theory of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition CIRC. In this CIRC theory, narrative plays important role as the learning development material. Hence, the topics used in this materials are the types of narrative. The topics in the designed materials are: Units Topics Unit Titles

1 Fable

What is Your Favourite Fable? 2 Fairy Tale Snow White is a Fairy Tale

3 Pourquoi Tale

I Don’t Know Pourquoi Tale 4 Myth What is Myth?

5 Horror Story

I Don’t Like Horror Movies 6 Short Story I Like Reading a Short Story

7 Romance

Tell Your Favourite Romance 8 Legend Legend is an Old Story SYLLABUS A SET OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS USING COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION CIRC FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 4 YOGYAKARTA Competency Standard: Reading : Students are able to understand the simple essay in the form of narrative in daily life context through the process of cooperative learning. Writing : Students are able to express the simple essay in the form of narrative in daily life context through the process of cooperative learning. Unit, Topic, Title Basic Competence Learning Materials Learning Experiences Indicators Assessment Time Alloca- tion Sources

1. Fable

What is Your Favourite Fable? Students are able to: 1. comprehend the meaning and rhetorical steps in a narrative text, in the form of fable. 2. gain more vocabulary to help them comprehend the text 3. understand the grammar used in a narrative text 4. understand how to request and give explanation 5. express a simple narrative in the form of fable  A Fable  Generic structure of narrative text: - Orientation - Complication - Resolution  Requesting Giving Explanation - Could you explain why...? - It means that...  Simple Past Tense - The tortoise was angry. - They started the journey.  Discuss about fable.  Read a fable entitled “The Tortoise Who Liked to Boast”  Discuss the new vocabularies  Answer the questions about the fable  Learn about fable  Learn about the generic structure of a narrative  Practice the gambit of Requesting Giving Explanation  Learn about Simple Past  Write a fable  Discuss the fable in groups The students are able to:  Describe the generic structure of a narrative text.  Describe what fable is.  Use the gambit in order to request and give explanation  Use Simple Past in writing a narrative  Write a fable considering its generic structure  Make a portfolio  Writing a fable following the outline given Individual  Making a portfolio Group Work 2 x 45’ - Favourite Stories from Asia . - Understanding and Using English Grammar - Teaching Text Types in the Singapore Primary Classroom - Look Ahead Book 2 Appendix G. Syllabus