USING READING GUIDE MODEL TO INCREASE STUDENT’S READING ABILITY AT EIGHT GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 1 YARU

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In learning English, students should master the four-language skills. There are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Reading is important skill which the students should master it well. The aim of Reading lesson is to make the students be able to written communicate with others persons using English. Based on the interviews with English teacher, the writer founds the problems. They are, the English score of the students were still low, the students had less motivation in teaching and learning process so the most of them dislike to learn English, and also the teaching and learning process tend only to use conventional model especially to Reading. Based on the problem above, the Reading conducts a research by Using Reading Guide Model To Increase Student’s Reading Ability At Eight Grade Of  SMP Negeri 1 Yaru. And the formulation of the research problem are (1) Usig Reading Guide Model To Increase Student’s Reading Ability At Eight Grade Of  SMP Negeri 1 Yaru. The objective of this research was to find out that Increase Student’s Reading Ability At Eight Grade Of  SMP Negeri 1 Yaru. The writer did the classroom Action Research in two cycles. The result of the action research Cycle I and Cycle II showed that the students Reading Ability had improved through the implementation of Reading Guide model. If it compared to the result of the Reading pre-test, it is clearly that the score Cycle I and Cycle II were higher than the pre-test. On pre-test, there were 14 students who passed the test, it means that 12 students did not very poor. On post-test, there were 9 students who passed the test, the students were able to Reading Ability well. It means that,  17 students did not pass. Then the Cycle II there were 26 students who passed test, of the students were able to Reading successfully. It indicated that the implementation of Reading Guide model at the eight grade was successful. From the results of this study, it is expected that teachers apply learning with the Reading Guide learning model in teaching English subjects, especially Reading Guide. For other researchers are expected to be able to research using other model or approaches in order to improve the quality of learning in schools.