USING PICTURE STORYBOOK IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION FOR EIGHTH GRADERS OF SMPN 15 BANJARBARU

AbstractBased on the 2013 Curriculum and Syllabus, reading is required to comprehend and find out the text's information. In teaching reading, using appropriate media is one of the keys to success. Besides, it could make students reading comprehension get an increase in the teaching and learning process. One of the media is a picture storybook, as visual media has a good influence on understanding the text. Therefore, this research aims to describe the use of picture storybooks in teaching reading comprehension of recount text to eighth-grade students' of SMPN 15 Banjarbaru. The method was descriptive qualitative research. The subjects were eighth-grade students of VIIC consisting of 31 students. Interviews and observations were used to collect the data. Data triangulation was used to analyze the data. The results of this research were 1) the teaching process of using picture storybook in reading comprehension of recount text at eighth-grade students' at SMPN 15 Banjarbaru 2) the technique used by the teacher are pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading 3) the strength and weakness of picture storybook. It suggested that the teacher use a kind of media to support the learning and teaching process. The teacher should keep using picture storybooks as the media in learning and teaching in the classroom, especially in reading activities, making students achieve better scores and learning motivation