THE EFFECT OF USING PREDICTION GUIDE STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 14 SIAK TUALANG OF SIAK REGENCY

Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that most of the students’ reading comprehension was still less than enough. This problem was caused some factors. For example, some of students could not identify general information, and detailed information of the text, So the writer was interested in carrying out the research about this problem. The research was administered at SMAN 14 Siak Tulang of Siak Regency. The subject of the research was the first year students at SMAN 14 Siak Tualang of Siak regency, and the object of this research was the effect of using Prediction Guide Strategy. The design of this research is quasi experimental design. The total number of population was 225 students. Because the number of population was large, the researcher used random sampling by taking two classes as sample; X.3 that consisted of 30 students as experimental group, and X.5 that consisted of 30 students as control group, So the number of samples from two classes was 60 students. To analyze the data, the researcher adopted paired sample t-test formula by using manual. The instrument of this study was test. In analyzing the data, the writer uses T-test as shown below; = − √ − 1 + √ − 1 After analyzing the data, the researcher found there significant effect of using Prediction Guide Strategy toward Reading Comprehension of the first year students’ at SMAN 14 Siak Tualang Of Siak Regency, it can be seen from the result of T-test calculating is 6.67. It is bigger than standard on the critic table of the T-test that is 2.65 in 1% or 2.00 in 5%, it can be read 2.002.65. Regarding the result above, Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected