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D. Teaching Narrative Text by Using Jigsaw Technique
Before involving students in jigsaw technique, first of all the teachers introduce the concept of jigsaw technique together with the benefits
students get. Then, the teachers explain to the students that jigsaw technique would be helpful to develop their writing ability of a story. Then explain the
basic rules in applying jigsaw technique in writing narrative text. Next, explain
that narrative texts, as one of the text types learned through four stages, starts from the building knowledge of the field on the characteristics
of narrative text followed by the model of narrative texts with its features.
The following is steps in teaching narrative text using jigsaw technique:
1. Distribute the story to the students as reading text to build the
students’ knowledge of the story and language input in vocabulary, grammatical usage, and the generic structure of narrative text.
2. Ask everyone to read the story and pay attention to vocabulary and
sentence structure or language feature of narrative text in the story. 3.
Ask students some questions to ensure that the students have understood about the story and generic structure of narrative text.
4. Prepare different several copies as many copies as there are groups
of the picture sequence to stimulate and help students describe the events. The picture sequence should be cut into a specific picture of
sequence for distribution to individual students. 5.
Put students into groups of six to seven. The diagram below shows the arrangement of the group.
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Figure 2.4 Division of S
tudents in “Home group”
6. Give each member of group one of specific picture, so everyone in the
group has the different picture. 7.
Reorganize the class into Expert group. The rearrangement can be shown diagrammatically in Figure 2.5
Figure 2.5 Division of S
tudents in “Expert group”
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 : Picture A
: Picture B : Picture C
S1
S2 S3
S4 S5
S6 S1
S2 S4
S3 S6
S5 S2
S1 S4
S3 S6
S5
S5 S6
S1
S2 S3
S4 S6
S5 S1
S2 S4
S3 S6
S5 S1
S2 S4
S3
Group A Group B Group C
Group A Group B Group C : Picture A
: Picture B : Picture C
S1 S2
S1 S2
S2 S1
S3 S4
S4 S3
S4 S3
S5 S6
S6 S5
S6 S5
S1 S2
S1 S2
S1 S2
S3 S4
S4 S3
S4 S3
S5 S6
S6 S5
S6 S5
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8. Assign students to discuss and describe the events in the picture
become an expert in their part of the story. 9.
Collect the pictures. 10.
Reorganize the class into Home groups after each student has a summary of a part of the story or a description of one picture. The
rearrangement can be shown in Figure 2.4 11.
Ask each student to present and share her or his part of the story to the group, in order to get the whole story.
12. Ask students to write the complete story individually so that students
quickly come to realize that these sessions are not just fun and games but really count.
13. Ask students to revise their draft on content and organization
using the revising guide.
14. Give students a chance to edit their writing in terms of grammar,
spelling, capitalization, and punctuation using editing guide. 15.
Submit the students’ final draft and completed versions by reading aloud at the end of the session.
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