The Effect of Story Mapping Strategy Towards Reading Comprehension of the Second Year Student at SMPN 3 Pekanbaru

The objective of this study is to obtain the empirical evidence about the effect of story mapping strategy toward students’ reading comprehension of the second year students’ at SMP N 3 Pekanbaru. and to find out to what extent the story mapping strategy is effective toward students’ reading comprehension. The method used in this study was a quantitative method and the design used in this study was a experimental research. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling. In this technique, two classes were chosen as experimental class and control class, in which each class consisting of 37 students. The technique of data collection used in this study was test which conducted twice as pre-test and post-test. The total number of each test was 20 multiple choice items. The technique of data analysis used in this study was t-test. The result of this study showed that there was significant difference toward students’ reading comprehension achievement after using story mapping strategy. In the table of significant, it can be seen that on df= 36 and in the degree of significance 5% the value of degree of significance was 2.028. By comparing the value to was higher than tt, that is 8.517 > 2.028, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Therefore, it could be interpreted that teaching reading by using story mapping strategy was effective toward students’ reading comprehension. of the second year students’ at SMP N 3 Pekanbaru