TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS FOR THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SD NEGERI 11 NGRINGO, JATEN, KARANGANYAR

This final project report is written based on the job training that which was carried out by the writer at SD Negeri 11 Ngringo, Jaten. The purposes of the project are to describe the process, method and the problems and the solution in teaching and learning process to improve reading skill for the fifth grade students of SD Negeri 11 Ngringo, Jaten, including its problems faced by the students and also the solutions for those problems. In writing this final report, the writer collected the data by observing the class, interviewing to the students, library study and directly teaching in the classroom. The writer found difficulties aced by students in the way to read the text covering the pronunciation and understanding the text. The writer used direct method in teaching and learning process. Moreover, the writer taught them systematically based on the lesson plan. It consist of three main steps namely, Pre Teaching, the process of teaching implementation and closing activity of the lesson. Pre-teaching was beginning activity of the lesson. The process of teaching implementation was the main steps of teacher duties that consisted of four steps namely, Building Knowledge of Field, Modeling Text, Join Construction and Individual Construction. The third step was closing activity where the writer could assess whether the objective of the lesson was adequately reached or not. Based on the job training experience, it can be concluded that the problems faced by fifth grade students in learning reading were from the students itself such as the low students’ interest and motivation. So, they were difficult to pronounce and understand the text. The writer tried to solve this problem by creating fun and communicative situation in the class related on the skill learned