Improving Students Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text Through Directed Reading-thinking Activity

This research was intended to improve the students reading comprehension on narrative text through Directed Reading-Thinking Activity Strategy. The aspects of reading comprehension focused in this research were reading comprehension in finding main idea and detail information, locating referent, making inference, and identifying the meaning of unknown vocabulary on narrative text. It was a Classroom Action Research which was conducted in three cycles. The subject of this research was Grade XI IPS 3 on the second semester of SMA Santo Fransiskus Asisi Pontianak Pontianak which consisted of 47 students. The data was collected by using observation checklist table, field notes, students reading comprehension test score and interview.It was analyzed by describing the observation checklist and field notes, and by using formula of mean score. The result of this research indicated that the students became more active in teaching and learning process. The students gave positive response during the activity. The students showed their interests by asking more questions and answering teachers questions actively. The students made predictions, discussed in groups, shared ideas to others students, and did the task well. Some students were very confident to claim that their predictions were correct and gave the reasons. The students enjoyed to make the predictions and it helped them to think and remember what they have learned. It proved that the students reading comprehension on narrative text improved through Directed Reading-Thinking Activity Strategy in three cycles. The students mean score in the first cycle was 63.70 on the first cycle became 83.17 on the second cycle and 89.04 on the third cycle