Abstract:
The experimental quantitative research design was applied in this research. The
objective of the research was to find out the effect of interactive reading strategy
on the students ability in finding main idea. This research was conducted at SMP
Muhammadiyah 02 Medan in eight grade students academic year 2019/2020
which consisted of 4 clasess as the population. The sample was consisted of 50
students which were taken by using purposive sampling technique and divided
into two different groups namely experimental group which consisted of 25
students and control group which consisted of 25 students. Essay test was used as
instrument which consisted of five questions and administrated in pre-test and
post-test. Based on the data analysis, the result showed that there was any
significant effect of interactive reading strategy on the students’ in reading with
ttable on the level 5.3098 > 2.069 . Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was
accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It also found that the students
who were taught by applying interactive reading strategy (experimental group) got
higher scores than the students who were taught by applying lecturing method
(control group). So,it meant that applying of interactive reading strategy on the
students ability in finding main idea was succeeded
