Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension by Using Herringbone Technique in Recount Text at First Grade Students in SMA N 3 Langsa

This study entitled “Improving Students‟ Reading Comprehension by Using Herringbone Technique in Recount Text at First Grade Students in SMAN 3 Langsa. Reading is a crucial skill for the learners to get the information and main ideas from a text. It is a very useful activity that helps the learners to gain knowledge. Understanding the main idea of a piece of a text is absolutely essential. Through reading, the learners can get information, knowledge, as well as insight. The readers should be able to take some details from the text. In senior high school, the students learn some texts. One of a monolog text is recount text. There are some problems in understanding the text. Almost of students felt difficult and bored when learning any text. Therefore, the selection of what technique that will be applied in learning the text is crucial. Herringbone is a technique that helps students to recognize and record the main idea of reading text by using a visual diagram. It includes six questions on the diagram. Those are what, where, why, when, who, and how. Recount text is one of texts that is suitable in applying Herringbone technique.