CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background
Reading is something that must be done by all students who are studying
language. Reading is considered as one of important skill, which has to be learned
because it can influent the other language skills. Reading is a process recognition or
interpretation of written materials and it ideals with the language form. It involves
letters, words, phrases, and clauses. Through reading, we can increase our experience,
develop new concept, solve our problem, study how the words are used, how to
implement the grammatical rules, and get many knowledge.
Extensive reading is one method for increasing reading skill by reading in
pleasure. It is effective way to motivate the students to read more because they can
choose what they want to read. In applying extensive reading programme the teacher
need to know exactly about the curriculum and funds of extensive reading.
Based on Lany Kristono, The National Education Curriculum strongly
influences students' attitudes toward reading. Reading is a skill; and a skill can only
be acquired through learning and practice. Children who want to swim have no other
choice but to practice swimming again and again. It also happens with reading skills
(http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/05/30/extensive-reading-nationalcurriculum). It shows that the curriculum of extensive reading is very important to be

applied, but in applying the curriculum we need funds. Thus, in this paper we try to
describe those curriculum and funds.

B. Objectives of the Study

1. To find out the curriculum of Extensive Reading.
2. To find out the funds of Extensive Reading.

CHAPTER II
CURRICULUM AND FUNDS
A. Curriculum
Curriculum is all planned learning for which the school is responsible. It refers to
the means and materials with which students will interact for the purpose of achieving
identified educational outcomes. Curriculum of extensive reading is a set of planning
for applying the extensive reading method.
Hill suggests that firstly, it is probably better to think in terms of starting a reading
club outside the reading timetable which charges membership fee or lending fee (Hill
2). This way teacher gains experience in using graded readers and gathers evidence

that his/her students enjoy ER and benefit from it. It is also possible to run a threemonth extensive reading programme as a part of EFL classes during which students
read extensively as presented in the practical part. Once the programme is successful
and the teacher wants to make it a part of his/her schools curriculum he/she has to
create a detailed design of the programme that will be presented to his/her authorities.
It is crucial that colleagues, parents and students understand the programme, its aims,
goals and objectives. If a teacher is planning to establish an ER programme that will
cover more years Hill suggests to project methodology that will help colleagues to
establish ER in their classes and to continue in it even without the founders presence
(Hill 2).
B. Funds
Extensive reading will be applied by using curriculum and curriculum is
supported by funds. Funds are a media to collect donation and books in order to
make library to support the extensive reading program in helping students to choose
book. Books inside of library can be got from teacher or students because teacher can
ask students to distribute one book. For such grants will come from a variety of
sources, including the royalties from the book Extensive Reading Activities for
Teaching Reading.
Funding the extensive reading library should be thoughtfully planned before
starting an extensive reading program. There are more possibilities how to finance an
extensive reading library (Nuttall 172; Hill 3; Conley 1):
1. a teacher can ask his/her headmaster to allocate some money for the program.
He/she should be prepared to present budget and the organization of the
programme (lending books, time devoted to ER etc.)
2. a teacher can ask each student to contribute money for one book. This is a
good start but more titles have to be added later.
3. a teacher can also appeal to local donors (individuals, firms, organizations)
4. a teacher can gain money from grants

5. a teacher can also contribute books from his/her personal library or ask his/her
colleagues to lend books
6. a teacher can involve students and their parents, so that students will pay a fee
for borrowing a book, or attending the extra reading class