Abstract :
Equally important, the successful indicators which needed to be reached
by the students significantly increased. From the pre-cycle test, there were 5
students successful and the students who fail were 20. But, when the first cycle
finished, the students who fail significantly decreased to 16 students only. It
meant that, successful indicators increased three times after the researcher did it. Likewise, at the second cycle, the students who fail decreased severely to 6 only. Consequently, almost all the students were categorized successful.
Based on the result, the researcher concludes that Thieves strategy as a
teaching strategy was effective in teaching reading narrative text at SMAN 1
Bulukumba in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. This strategy helps the students
to improve their enthusiasm and attention in the process of teaching and learning
English, especially reading comprehension. Their vocabulary and understanding
of new words also improve. In relation to their comprehension of narrative texts,
the students are able to identify main ideas and supporting details of paragraphs
correctly.