Homeschooling Teacher’s Strategies in Teaching Reading for Junior High School Slow Learner Students: A Case Study at Homeschooling HSPG Palembang

Abstract

This study was a case study which aimed to find out the teacher’s strategies in teaching reading for slow learners at Homeschooling HSPG Palembang. This qualitative study was conducted at Homeschooling HSPG with one teacher as the participant taken from four teachers by using criterion sampling. In collecting data, interview with 12 questions was used to know the teacher’s strategies in teaching reading for slow learners. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. The findings from the teacher’s interview found that the strategies which teacher used in teaching and learning reading were learning strategy (discovery learning), learning media (gadgets and applications), learning method (question and answer relationship) and learning approach (build interaction). From the good strategy that teacher use in the lesson plan (media, method and approach learning) the teacher could make the slow learners understand the materials, felt comfortable and created the slow learner’s activeness in teaching and learning reading.