The Effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading Toword Student’s Reading Comprehension at Eigthh Grade in SMP Negeri 5 Langsa

The objective of this study was to investigate whether Collaborative Strategic Reading significantly affected on students reading comprehension.The research was conducted in SMP Negeri 5 Langsa, for the eight grade students. The problem of this thesis is that the students do not have ability comprehend the text and the students are not able to do their task well of reading comprehension passage. In this research, the researcher uses two classes, experimental and control group.The pretest-postets are done in both of classes. The instrument of collecting data was multiple choice test The researcher gave a treatment in experimental class while in control class, the researcher gave collaborative strategic reading. After analyzing data of the research, the mean score of the postest , the experiment group got higher score than control group. The experiment group got 4.25 and the control group got 1.59. The result of the study that there is positive effect of using collaborative strategic reading toward student reading comprehension at the eighth grades of SMP Negeri 5 Langsa by comparing the test result by using T-test that show T-score>T-table that 4.25>2.84. By examine the hypothesis Ha is accepted it means that students who teach by using collaborative strategic reading can comprehend the text better than students are not teaching by collaborative strategic reading