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.