TEACHING WRITING NEWS ITEM TEXT AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENT’S IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BY USING THEMATIC PICTURE

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The purpose of writing this paper aims at describing teaching writing news item text by using thematic picture. The teacher should try to use attractive media to attract the students’ interest to write actively. One of the media that can be used by the teacher in teaching learning process, especially in writing process is thematic picture.Writing is a complex ability because the students has to express ideas grammatically arranged by combining multiple components of the language itself. The teacher should select thematic picture to make the students interest in teaching and learning process, because it is very important especially in English learning. By using thematic picture in writing process, the students can easily to express their ideas, thoughts, and feelings. There are many texts that students learn, one of them is news item text. In this way, the students are expected to be able to learn and practice writing the news item text based on the picture given by their teacher. This activity is better done in group. Before the class activity, teacher divides the students into several groups or asks them to choose their own group, they can be divided into 5 to 6 groups that consists of 3 to 4 persons every group. After that, the teacher asks the students to write paragraph based on the picture that the  teacher had show in piece of paper. Picture activity above helps the students to write.

Keywords : Teaching Writing, News Item Text, Thematic Picture