Improving Students’ Ability in Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text by Using Story Pyramid Strategy at SMA Citra Harapan

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the improvement students reading comprehension on narrative text by using story pyramid strategy. The subject of this research was elevent grade at SMA Citra Harapan in Academic Year 2017/2018. It consisted of one class with 30 students as respondents. The objective was to discover the significant improvement of the students’ reading on narrative text using story pyramid strategy. This research was conducted by using classroom action research. The instruments of collecting data were observation sheet, interview, and tests which were carried out in two cycles and the two cycles conducted in six meetings. The tests were given to the students in the form of pretest, post-test I in the first cycle, and post-test II in the second cycle. The technique of analyzing data applied quantitative and qualitative. The result of data analysis showed that there was an improvement on the students’ reading on narrative text from each cycle. It was showed from the mean of pre-test which was 29.16. After story pyramid strategy was applied in the first cycle, the mean’s score in post-test I was 69.33 and for the second cycle, the means’s score was 85.5. Moreover, in pre-test session which was 0% (no student) who got point of over 70. In post-test I for the first cycle which was 60% (18 students) who got the point of over 70. In post-test II for the second cycle which was 100% (30 students) who got the point of over 70. It concluded that there was improvement of students’ ability in reading comprehension by applying story pyramid strategy in learning reading comprehension