IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AND PARTICIPATION THROUGH FINDING AND SHARING ACTIVITY BASED ON DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING

Abstract

According to the observation conducted on the pre-cycle, the students of grade XI6 in SMA Negeri 1 Karangtengah Demak were less participation because of their distraction by their gadgets during the learning activity. It can be indicated that the learning activity did not appeal to the students to be a part of it. Moreover, many students were not able to identify the main idea of an explanation text and comprehend the whole information of the text. This study aimed to improve students' reading comprehension and participation in the learning process of explanation text. As it is known that the implementation of Kurikulum Merdeka tries to accommodate each student's needs, particularly in students' learning styles. Hence, differentiated learning was applied as the approach to solve the problems along with cooperative learning through finding and sharing technique. This class action research was descriptive qualitative. The findings showed that the number of students that are able to reach the learning objectives increased. In cycle 1, only 24% of the students could construct the jumbled paragraph into a good text and give a title for the text. On the other hand, students participated a lot during the activity even though they were still getting difficulties reading the text. In cycle 2, 73% of the students could find the appropriate answer to the given questions. In addition, the students started to be more comfortable with that kind of activity which contains their learning style.