Penerapan Metode Reciprocal Learning untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Memahami Bacaan pada Siswa SMA

The goal of this research is to improve the students' reading ability through The Reciprocal Learning Method of X Grade Students of SMAN 10 Pontianak. The method of this research was descriptive, form of research was qualitative and in analyzing data quantitative form was used to showed students' score tables and students' achievement charts. The research design was classroom action research. The research was done in two cycles. Every cycle consist of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting stages. Data resources were from teacher, students, and documents. The data were taken from observation and test.The results of this research showed the improvement of teacher's ability in planning and acting the learning process. The improvement also showed in students' ability during the learning process and achievement in every cycle. The score gained by teacher in planning the learning process cycle I was 78,4 and cycle II was 81,6. Meanwhile the score gained by teacher in acting the learning process cycle I was 76 and cycle II was 81,5. From the achievement aspect, the improvement could be shown from students' achievement of every cycle. Mean score of cycle I was 69,28 and mean score of cycle II was 78,5