The Use of Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) to Improve Teaching and Learning of Reading Narrative Texts to Grade VIII-B Students of SMP Islamic Center Siak

The students at grade VIII-B of SMP Islamic Center Siak had problems in comprehending narrative texts. They were difficult to comprehend narrative texts because they had not understood the text structures of narratives yet, they could not find the implicit meaning and ideas in the texts and the reading strategy choice was less precise. To solve these problems, a research was needed to be conducted through reading strategy of CORI. CORI consisted of integrated instructional strategy including the steps of perceiving text structures, inferencing and concept mapping. This research used the design of a classroom action research with the cycling processes of plan, action, observation and reflection. The purposes of this research were to find out the extent of CORI could better improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning of reading narrative texts and find out the factors that influenced the changes of it. There were two cycles in this CAR. The instruments that were used to collect the data were in the forms of observation sheets (field-notes and checklist), interview and tests. The research findings showed that CORI could better improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning of reading narrative texts to grade VIII- B students of SMP Islamic Center Siak with the factors that influenced the changes of it. The obtained dominant factors were teaching strategies, classroom management, media and teacher’s approach.