<![CDATA[AbstractTeachers are required to have good reading material with various questions excercicesto meet students’ interest to improve their reading ability. This developmental research wasundertaken to develop a model of instructional material of HOTs questions for narrativereading texts for IX grade students of SMPN 2 Jorong. The development of the model in R &D research involved the following steps: needs assessment, reference study, materialdevelopment, expert validation, tryout, revision, and final product. The subject of theresearch was the students of grade IX of SMPN 2 Jorong. The instruments to take the datawere observation sheet, questionaire sheet, students’ test result, and test sheet. After all of thesteps were done, the final product was in form of instructional material consisting of: Cover;Introduction, and Content. The content of the product consisted of Unit 1 and Unit 2, whichcontained narrative reading texts entitled Hansel and Grethel, Malin Kundang, and Rapunzeltaken and modified from the internet. Each story was inserted with HOTS questions to ask thestudents to generalise, analyse, compare, distinguish, and to correlate.Based on the result ofthe expert validation, the model of HOTS questions for narrative reading texts for IX gradestudents of SMPN 2 Jorong was very effective and advisable to be implemented.Key words: HOTs questions, narrative text]]>
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