Arifin, Luthfika Rahmadini (2020) The Use Of Title, Heading, Introduction, Every First Sentence, Visual, Ending, and Summary (Thieves) Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension Ability at The Eighth Graders of SMP N 2 Way Jepara. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purposes of this research are to find out THIEVES strategy can improve reading comprehension ability at the eighth graders of SMP N 2 Way Jepara and to know what extend the THIEVES strategy could help the students‟ learning process. Pre-test is used to know the students in understand reading text and post-test to know the result of the students ability in reading text after giving the treatment that was the use of THIEVES strategy in reading descriptive text.

The researcher had outlined the problem in this research that focused on reading comprehension skill. It is relate on the problem identification that the students do not understand about the passage and they do not interest in reading material.In this research, the researcher conducts classroom action reserarch (CAR) which is done two cycles. Each cycle consist of planning, acting, observing, dan reflecting. The subject of this research is 34 in VIII class of SMP N 2 Way jepara. In collecting data, the researcher used test (pre-test, post-test I, and post-test II), observation and documentation. The research is conducted collaboratively with an English teacher of SMP N 2 Way Jepara.

The result of this result shows that THIEVES strategy can be used as a strategy to improve students reading comprehension ability especially in descriptive text, it proved by the average score result of pre-test and post-test. The average score at pre-test is 63, then at post-test I the average score is 68, and the acerage score at post-test II is76. Based the result above, it can be seen that there were improvement average score from the pre-test, post-test I and post-test II.

Key words:THIEVES strategy, Reading comprehensionability, Classroom action research

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