Improving Students’ Reading Ability By Using Preview, Ask Question, Read And Summarize Strategy

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to describe the implementation of preview, ask question, read and summarize (PARS) in student’s reading ability, the population was the first grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Pematangsiantar. The research design was use classroom action research. To collect the data, the writer uses that consist pre-test and post test that is formed of 20 multiple choise. In analyzing the data, the writer uses theory from mudjiarahardjo and andriyani & al ghofar (2019). Based on the analyzing the data, the writer found the mean score of the students in pretest is 74.00 in cycle I, the post test mean score is 79.33 in cycle I and the post test mean score is 79.83 in cycle II. From the score in pretest and post test, the writer can seen the significant improvement score of the students. Based on the result of the research, the writer can suggest that the PARS strategy is the effective strategy to teach reading especially in reading ability a text