Improving Students' Reading Comprehension Through Story Mapping Strategy at SMA Negeri 1 Terusan Nunyai

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah ada peningkatan pada kemampuan siswa dalam kemampuan pemahaman membaca stelah belajar melalui stategi story mapping. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Sasaran penelitian ini sebanyak 32 siswa. Tes membaca, observasi dan wawancara digunakan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Analisis data menggunakan paired sample test. Hasil menunjukan bahwa terdapat perbedaan signifikan secara statistik pada pencapaian kemampuan pemahaman membaca siswa dengan tingkat signifikan 0.000.05. Dapat disarankan bahwa pengajaran membaca menggunakan strategi story mapping dapat membuat siswa aktif dan kreatif dalam pembelajaran dan dapat membantu siswa menemukan informasi yang terdapat di dalam teks dengan mudah.The aim of this study was to find out whether there was a statistically significant improvement of the students reading comprehension ability after they were taught through story mapping strategy. This research was quantitative. The subjects of this research were 32 students. The reading test, observation, and interview were administrated as the instrument of this research. The data were analyzed using paired sample test. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students reading comprehension ability with the significant level 0.000.05. This suggests that teaching reading using story mapping strategy facilitates the students to find information from the text easily.Keywords: strategy, story mapping, reading comprehensio