4.1.1 The Implementation of the Actions in Cycle 1
The implementation of the actions in the first meeting was based on Lesson Plan 1 while the implementation in the second meeting was based on Lesson Plan 2.
The genre used in this research was narrative text. The reading text used in the first meeting entitled “Golden Egg” while the title of the reading text in the second
meeting was “Honest Woodcutter”. The reading comprehension covered word comprehension, sentences comprehension, paragraph comprehension and text
comprehension. For each meeting there were three stages applied in teaching reading of narrative text using pictures in series. They were pre-reading, while-reading and
post-reading. The first stage in teaching reading was pre-reading. In pre-reading, the teacher
tried to attract the students’ attention and interest by giving pictures in series. In this cycle, two students got one set of pictures in series. Therefore, they had to share the
pictures in series with their friend sitting beside them. After that, the teacher asked some leading questions to focus the students on the topic. The last, the teacher stated
the objectives of teaching and learning process. Moving to the second stage, that was while-reading. In this stage, the teacher
distributed the reading material first. After that, the teacher asked the students to read the text accompanied by pictures in series silently. Then, the teacher reviewed the
material about narrative text like the definition, social function, generic structures and language features. Then, the teacher related them to the text they had read. The
students had been taught narrative text by their English teacher before, that was why in this research the students only needed to review. Then, the students found the
meanings of underlined words in the text helped by pictures in series. After that, the teacher guided the students to discuss them. In order to know the students’
comprehension, the teacher asked them some questions related to the reading text. Then, the students did the exercises and discussed the answers of the exercises. The
last thing done in this stage was checking the students’ exercise score.
The end of the stages in this teaching reading was post-reading. In this stage, the teacher guided the students to draw conclusion which was done in written form
and was guided by the teacher. After that, the teacher asked the students about the problems they faced in learning narrative text by using pictures in series. In the
second meeting, some students told the teacher that they faced some problems. One of them was the difficulty in understanding the pictures in series given in meeting
two. The text entitled Honest Woodcutter had many details activities that actually needed more than 8 pictures to visualize. However, the researcher limited the pictures
in series in 8 pictures only. Therefore, it was not really clear to be understood by the students. It aroused the students to be confused in synchronizing what they read in the
text and what they watched in the pictures in series. After discussing the students’ problems, finally the teacher closed the teaching and learning process by saying good
bye to the students. Each meeting in cycle 1 was done in the same way.
4.1.2 The Results of Observation in Cycle 1
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