The Effect of Applying Fix – Up Strategy on the Students’ Reading Skill

This study was carried out to find the effect of applying fix – up strategy on the students’ reading skill. The research was conducted in SMA Al- Hidayah Medan on jl. Letda Sudjono Medan Tembung, at the even semester of 2017/2018 academic year,by using total sampling technique and lottery system, all the population which consist of 60 students and distribuited into two classes were choosen as the sample. Class X- IPA1 consist of 32 students were choosen as the experimental group which is taught by fix- up strategy and class X- IPS1 consist of 28 students were choosen as the control group which is taught by lecturing method. Experimental quantitative research was applied to analyze the data. In obtain the data, multiple choice test consist of 50 question were administrated to the score. By using t- tes technique in analyzed the data, the result showed that to was higher than ttable (3,769>2.00) at α = 0,05, and df = 58, it means that the alternative hypotesis (Ha) was accepted, there is a significant effect using fix- up strategy on the students reading skil