This is the product of the competitive research grant conducted in 2020. It is a supplementary reading textbook in Indonesian context for Senior High School Grade X. The book contains descriptive as well as report and narrative texts. The text materials were downloaded from internet, but some changes of the texts had been made for their readability so that they are appropriate for the school grade level ten. Besides, some long narrative texts have been summarized from the original ones without changing their primary content, so the total number of words in each text is standard for school grade ten and the time to read the text is enough based on the teaching hour allocated.
This textbook is divided into two parts which include descriptive as well as report texts (part one), and narrative texts (part two). The descriptive and report texts are about famous people, interesting places, and historical buildings from some parts of Indonesia. The narrative texts are mosltly legend stories from different places in Indonesia. The reading texts are accompanied with questions mostly based on higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). For the purpose of enriching learners’ vocabulary stocks, few low frequency as well as academic words with phonetic transcriptions to study are listed before the texts and their meaning can be found on the glossary page.
The design of HOTS-based questions on every reading text is aimed at developing students’ critical thinking to meet the demand of the recent curriculum for senior high school. Most of the questions have been made for five-alternative multiple-choice items. Few items have also been made in the form of information transfer and other types of questions.
