The revisions were based on the participants’ suggestions and criticism as follows.
1. Reduce the writing part
Since the writing part was mostly there in production, so the writing activities as the students’ product would be replaced by filling the table based on
the information the students got, both from their mates and their own experiences. 2.
Check the contextual topics The writer had checked the topics with contextual based. Moreover, the
vocabularies and subtopics had changed to more contextual based for the students’ daily life.
3. Replace the activities in presentation
For the activities in presentation, it would be replaced by students’ activities-based, no more teachers’ activities-based except the materials
explanation. Hence, it would attract the students to think as “brainstorming” and arouse their interest to the topics.
4. Improving the instructions For each task in each unit, the writer made the instructions more natural in
order to ease the students to understand what to do and to be sound better.
B. Presentation of the Final Version of the Designed Materials
This section was intended to answer the second question formulated in the problem formulation. The problem dealt with presentation of materials design.
After the writer revised the designed materials, the final version of a set of
instructional reading materials using games for the fifth grade students of Santa Maria Elementary School
were ready to be presented. There were eight units in the materials. They were Self Introduction, Family, Occupation, Calendar, Daily
Activities, Times, Health and Hospital, Weather and Seasons . Each unit contained
four sections. They were: 1.
Presentation It was a pre-activity to motivate the students’ interest in a topic and to direct
the students to the main topic that was going to be learnt. This part also activated the students’ knowledge about a topic in each unit. There were two subtitles,
named “Let’s Study” and “Let’s Focus”. 2.
Practice There were two subtitles in this section. They were Let’s Read and Let’s
Practice . In this section the students had their chance to practice and show their
reading and comprehending reading skill. 3.
Production In this section, the students were given chances to express their ideas and
creativity related to the materials they had just learnt by producing information in the form of reading. Teacher could assess the students’ skill and competencies in
the subtitle named “Project Work”. 4.
Games Games in this section were functioned as materials review. Some games
used in this section were “Answer and Block”, “Word Association Story”, “Call
My Bluff ”, “Betting”, “Complete the Story”, “What Time Paper”, “Sickness vs
Advices ”, and “Snap On it”. The games were briefly explained as follows.
Table 4.6: Description of the Game
Unit Theme Games
Description 1
Self Introduction Answer and
block This game is functioned as material
review in post reading. In this game the students should make a
horizontal, vertical or diagonal line. This game is aimed to assess the
students’ understanding of reading passage by answering the questions
correctly related to Self Introduction and to train the students for having
solidarity as a team.
2 Family Word
association story This game is functioned as material
review in post reading. The aim of this activity is to make up a story
using words related to Family. They are working together as a class.
3 Occupation
Call my bluff This game is functioned as material
review in post reading. The aim is to enrich the students’ vocabulary by
guessing the right definition of each term of Occupation.
4 Calendar
Betting This game is functioned as material
review in post reading. The aim is to help the students keeping the
material longer by experiencing the game, and to call for their strategy.
5 Daily Activities
Complete the story
This game is functioned as material review in post reading. The students
listen to a story where 16 words have been left out. They then have to
suggest which word or words best completes each gap. It is aimed to
enrich the students’ vocabulary and also improve their competence in
comprehending the text.
Unit Theme Games
Description 6
Times What time paper
This game is functioned as material review in post reading. It is aimed to
improve their competence in understanding the term of Time.
7 Health and
Hospital Sickness vs
Advices This game is functioned as material
review in post reading. It is aimed to improve their memorization of the
learning material.
8 Weather and
Seasons Snap on it
This game is functioned as material review in post reading. It is aimed to
enrich the students’ vocabulary and keep them longer as they experience
it.
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
