TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING POWERPOINT

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Abstract

Narrative text is a kind of text that tells a story. It has character, setting, and problem. The characters, setting and the problem of the narrative text are usually introduced at the beginning of the text. The generic structure of the text are orientation, complication and resolution. This text also has some language features, they are; the use of past tense, presented in spoken and written form, chronological and the use of first and third person. The purpose of this text is to recount a personal or fictional experience or tell a story based on real or imagined event. In well written narration, a writer uses a fairy stories, msyteries, personal experience, legend stories, romance, humor, or fantasy to create a central theme or impression. This paper was aimed to give solutions toward problems in teaching reading on narrative text.

            After collecting some theories and facts, the writer found that teacher can minimalize the problems in teaching reading narrative text by using PowerPoint. Teaching reading narrative text through powerpoint can be done through following activities. First, the teacher designs the powerpoint presentation, provides the students with the concept of narrative text by using powerpoint, and explains narrative text. Next, the teacher divides the students into several groups, asks them to read the narrative text, asks them to present the summary of their reading before class and asks them to respond their friend’s presentation. The last activity is evaluation. The teacher invites them to ask the materials that they do not understand and assigns them homework for the next class.

Key words : Reading, Narrative text, PowerPoint.