THE USE OF HARRY POTTER' BOOK 1 TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY AT MASTER PLATO COLLEGE (MPC)

Abstract

This community service was inspired by the authors’ desire in order to be able to give contribution to society, especially for young generation of Indonesia, students at the program of tutoring. This community service was addressed to the third grade of senior high school students and alumni who are going to take the SBMPTN and also officialdom institution such as police and military academy. This community service is expected to be able to give great contribution to the students’ reading ability and accustom them to practice reading in advance level and it is expected they are going to be successful in answering English test especially in reading comprehension. This activity successfully conducted. There are 30 students who attended this activity, there are 27 boy students and 3 girl students. They are divided into three classes which two class consist of six students, and the other class consists of 10 students. The teachers determined the group name of every class, namely A, B, C class according to the number of teachers. For the first day, three teachers opened the class with self-introduction and the purpose of the activity and then followed by giving theories related to advanced reading topic. At the second day, the students were presented the material of advanced reading, the synopsis of Harry Potter book 1 as the tea according to what was discussed by the teachers, the class was opened by giving the reading material and some questions in hard copy, the students were given 45 minutes to answer the question related to the material individually and independently. After 45 five minutes, each teacher invited the students discussing the questions. Each teacher chose the students answering the questions randomly, and if one student answered incorrect then the teacher asked the other students to answer, but if the students still answered incorrect so the teacher would give the correct answer, and explained reason why the answer is correct, and so on to all questions. The   implementation of program runs smoothly, successfully and was as expected in Master Plato College (MPC) institution as during the program students get change into the betterment of reading skill.  The similar activity needs to conducted frequently in this institution (MPC) as it can provide students with advanced reading practices offers several advantages that contribute to their overall academic and cognitive development