Abstract:
This study deals with the effect of shared reading using fairytale. This is an
experimental research which applied descriptive quantitative method. The
objective of the research were to find out the significant effect of shared reading
strategy using fairytale on the students‟ achievement in reading comprehension.
This research was conducted in SMP Swasta Budisatrya Medan, 2019/2020
academic year. The population of this research was the IX grade of SMP Swasta
Budisatrya Medan. Cluster Sampling Technique was applied to take the sample.
The experimental group, class IX-3 was taught by using shared reading strategy
and control group, class IX-2 was taught by using traditional strategy. The
instrument used in collecting data was multiple choices. The total items of the test
were 20 items. The finding showed that the value of with the degree of
freedom (df) 52 at the level of significance 5% was at 2.00, while the critical
value ( ) was 9.5. It was found that the value of was higher than
(9.5 >2.00) therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It meant
that the IX grade got significant effect of shared reading strategy using fairytale
on the students‟ achievement in reading comprehension
