The Use of Jumbled Paragraphs to Teach Narrative Text for Senior High School Students: A Best Practice Report
Abstract
Understanding the text’s structure is one of the challenges of reading. One of the
texts studied in high school is narrative texts. The difficulty for the students is in
comprehending the general structure. This best practice report describes the
implementation of using jumbled paragraph to teach the generic structure of
narrative text for senior high school students in Yogyakarta. The steps of the
jumbled paragraph are as follows: first I separated the class into groups; second I
distributed the pieces of paper, and last the students carefully arranged the
paragraph with their partners. In conclusion, the use of jumbled paragraph creates
students enthusiasm in learning.