Teacher’s strategy in teaching reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

The problem of research is not only the teaching material but also the strategy of teaching. The teaching learning process does not give a good result of the methods of teaching is not suitable to the students’ condition. The purpose of the research were to identify what is teacher’s strategy in teaching reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan and to know the most dominant strategy used by teacher in teaching reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. This was a phenomena qualitative research which used descriptive analysis method. The participant of the research was teacher at Grade VIII of SMP 5 Padangsidimpuan. The data were collected from observation and Interview. Analysis of the data consisted of 5 steps; they are data managing, reading/memoing, description, classifying, and interpreting. This research used member checking to check data trustworthiness. Based on the result of the research, teacher strategy in teaching reading comprehension were pre-reading or before reading the strategy used by teacher were (vocabulary analysis, and clustering or mapping strategy) vocabulary students got new vocabulary and know the meaning/translation of word, while reading or when reading activity strategy used by teacher were (taking not/outlining strategy) students got the important thing of text, post reading or after reading the strategy used by teacher were (retelling strategy) students could memorize the material