Abstract :
This Research was classroom action research (CAR), this research was
conducted to overcome the existing problem on the field as well as to described
and also explained whether the KWL strategy could improve the students? reading
comprehension in Narrative Text. In this research, researcher was used the KWL
strategy as the strategy to improve students? reading comprehension of Narratve
text, this research was conducted at SMP Negeri 8 Rambah, there were 23
students in the eight grade.
This research was conducted in two cycles, every cycle consisted of four
meetings with the sequenced activity : plan, action, obvservation and reflection.
Researcher used four instruments in collecting data, namely: test, observation
checklist, field notes and interview. Then, analyzed by qualitatively and
quantitatively.
The finding of this research indicated that the implementation of KWL
strategy was successful, there was an improvement in students? reading
comprehension in narrative text. The finding showed an improvement in
students? reading comprehension of narrative text from the average of reading test
narrative text in basic test 42%, cycle 1 was 50,8% and 72,51% average of
reading test narrative text in cycle 2. The improvement from basic test to cycle 1
was 8,8% and from cycle 1 and cycle 2 was 21,71%. Based on the finding
mentioned before, the researcher suggests that English teacher could implement
KWL strategy in teaching reading narrative text in order to motivate students in
learning English reading in narrative text.