The Effect of Shared Reading Using Fairytale on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension

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