IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH KNOW-WANT-LEARN STRATEGY

Abstract

Improving The Students’ Reading Comprehension through Know-Want-Learn Strategy at
the first grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Stabat. The objective of this research was
intended to explain the improvement of the students’ interpretative and literal reading
comprehension through Know-Want-Learn Strategy at the first grade students of SMA
Negeri 1 Stabat especially in class X 3. The strategy of this research was a Classroom
Action Research (CAR) consisted of two cycles, one cycle consisted of four meetings. It
means that there were eight meetings for two cycles. This classroom action research was
done at the first grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Stabat in Langkat regency for English
subject. As subject in this research was class X 3 in 2022-2023academic year with
students’ number as about 32 students. Those consist of 22 women and 10 men. The
instrument of this research were observation sheet and reading test or evaluation. The
findings of the research were students achievement in reading comprehension was 54,07
in D-test, then Cycle I is 69,07 and it became 73,81 in Cycle II. The students activeness in
learning reading comprehension in the first meeting of Cycle I was 45,39% then it
became 90,78% in fourth meeting of Cycle II.