THE EFFECT OF USING STORY PYRAMID STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF MU’ALLIMIN MUHAMMADIYAH BANGKINANG

Based on writer’s preliminary research, it was found that the eighth grade students at Islamic Junior High School of Muallimin Muhammadiyah Bangkinang got difficulties in their reading comprehension of narrative text such as identify main idea, identify reference, and analyze content of narrative text. This research aimed at finding out the effect of using story pyramid strategy on students’ reading comprehension at the eighth grade of Islamic junior High School of Muallimin Muhammadiyah Bangkinang. This research was a quasy-experimental research. This research used two groups; control group and experimental group. The subject of the research was eighth grade students at Islamic Junior High School of Muallimin Muhammadiyah Bangkinang. The object of the research was the effect of using Story Pyramid strategy toward students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. The population of this research was all students of eighth grade that consisted of 124 students. The writer took VIII B and VIII A as sample by using cluster random sampling. To analyze the data, the writer used independent sample T-test by using SPSS 23 version and effect size. Based on data analysis, the writer found that the result of effect size formula was 0.27. It was categorized into large effect. Finally,it can be concluded that there was significant effect of using story pyramid strategy on students reading comprehension at the eighth grade of Islamic Junior High School of Muallimin Muhammadiyah Bangkinang. Keyword: Story Pyramid, reading comprehensio