Improving Students’ Reading Ability Through Storytelling Strategy

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to find out the improvement of students' reading ability, especially in report text through Storytelling strategy to the tenth-grade students'' of Multimedia class in SMKN 2 Singkawang. It's because of some problems faced in SMKN 2 Singkawang, especially tenthgrade students of Multimedia class. The student needs help to determine the main idea and supporting detail in the report text; also, the student needs to be more active and engaged with teaching and learning English, especially in the report text. This research was done by applying Classroom Action Research which was carried out conduct two cycles, and in each cycle, there were three meetings. The subject of research was the tent-grade students of Multimedia class. The data was collected from tenth-grade students of Multimedia class. The researcher used reading tests, observation checklists, and field notes to collect data. For the data analysis researcher used quantitative and qualitative data. The instrument used to collect data was a reading test. The data analysis showed that the mean score increased in the second cycle, the mean score in the pre-test was 72, and in the first cycle was 77. The finding of this research showed that the storytelling strategy was effective to improving students’ reading ability in enhancing students reading ability. Keywords: reading skill, teching reading, reading achivment, senior high school, English.