2.7. Procedure of Teaching Reading Through Picture Strip Story in Narrative Text
The followings are the steps of teaching reading using picture strip story. The text will be used is story about “Snow White”:
1. Pre-Activity •
Teacher opens the class and greets the students. •
Teacher checks the students’ attendance list. •
Teacher brainstorms the students about the narrative text in form of story.
• Teacher conveys the object of the lesson.
2. Whilst-Activity •
Teacher asks students to make a group consist of 4 students. •
Teacher distributes the story to the students in group. •
Teacher asks them to read the story. •
Teacher invites some students to read aloud in front of class. •
Teacher asks the students to analyze the story and the picture in story.
• Teacher asks each group to retell the story, one group one
paragraph. •
Teacher asks the students to analyze the story and match the picture with the story in each paragraph.
• Teacher and students make a conclusion based on the story.
• Teacher asks students to do the exercise of story individually.
3. Post-Activity •
Teacher asks the students to submit their work. •
Teacher summarizes the lesson. •
Teacher closes the meeting.
2.8. Advantages and Disadvantages
There are some advantages of this technique: 1. The students are able to learn how to predict the away of story and
understand it. 2. The students can develop their visualization ability that could make they
were creative. 3. The students are more attractive and active in the class because they
enjoyed the interesting class. On the other hands, picture strip story also has disadvantage that is the procedures
take time because there are several steps that teacher has to do, that are shown in the above subchapter.
2.9. Theoretical Assumption
As the frame of theories above, it can be assumed that reading is extremely important in learning language and the writer assumes that using picture strip is a
suitable media in teaching reading, particularly in improving student’s reading comprehension. Picture strip is appropriate to be applied as a media in reading.
Using picture strip as a media changes a passive reader into an active one. Picture strip was a useful media for absorbing written information. It helped the students