Determining the Actions to Solve the Problem

c conducting group-work, d providing group and individual work sheet and exercise, e reviewing the material and media, and f testing the students’ reading comprehension. During the implementation, DRTA was applied trough the scientific approach, the teaching method suggested by the Indonesian Minister of Education. Thus, in implementing the designed action plans, the researcher followed the three main stages in reading which are presented as follows: a Pre-reading This previewing stage of reading overcame the observing and questioning steps of the scientific approach and the predicting step of DRTA. The students were given one or more pictures to be observed followed with some questions. After that, the students were provided with one or two question words and have to make questions based on the picture using the provided words that at once functioned as prediction. Then, they answered the questions including their own questions to make the predictions which embraced the DRTA step. b Whilst-reading Whilst-reading allowed the students to read the text in the form of stopping points or segments, not the complete text. In this step, the students collected information related to the previous questions. One of the students was invited to read each stopping point in front of the class. This whilst-reading stage overcomes the collecting information step of scientific approach and reading step of DRTA. c After reading After reading the stopping points, the students had to confirm and justify whether their predictions were accurate, less accurate, or not accurate by putting a tick in the prediction verification checklist and they were allowed to correct their predictions. This stage comprised the confirming and justifying steps of DRTA and associating step of the scientific approach. It was because the stage facilitated the students to correlate the information they read with their predictions and decided whether they were accurate or not and made correction if it was necessary.

b. The Action and Observation in Cycle 1

In cycle 1, the actions were carried out in two meetings. The schedule of the cycle 1 is presented in the following table: Table 6: The Schedule of Cycle 1 No. Day and Date Material Exercise 1. Tuesday, March 24 th 2015 A recount text entitled Sick in the Middle of the Class  Open-ended questions consist of six questions. 2. Saturday, March 28 th 2015 A recount text about a worker who found a snake in the construction site  TrueFalse task consists of five items. The complete description of the implementation in the first cycle is presented as follows. 1 Meeting 1 The first meeting was done on March 24 th . Previously, a pre-test were carried out on March 17 th 2015 and gave some briefing about the research including grouping the students into 5 groups. At the first meeting, the class was started by greeting between the teacher and the students, brief introduction, and students ’ attendance list checking. A student was absent because he should join in a competition. The students were asked to sit down in their group while preparing the power point presentation. The lesson was continued by the work and verification sheets distribution for each group and the explanation on how to work with the worksheet. A picture was presented in the slide show as well in the students’ worksheet. The students were given the opportunities to observe the first picture for 3