improving students comprehension through comic books

Abstract

Abstrak

This study is aimed to developing students’ reading comprehension through comic book of SMP 8 Banda Aceh. It was conducted to know how to improve reading comprehension by comic book. The method used in this study was quantitative research. The research design of the study was pre-experimental design. The primary data were pre-test and post-test from the test that given to the students and the form of observation sheet. The model used in collecting the data was pre-test and post-test. The students score in cycle 1 was 45 which did not reach average score of KKM 70 it means that the researcher did next cycle. In cycle 2, the researcher did same thing but more emphasize in giving the example of finding main idea and important detail of a text and improved the lack of step in cycle 1 and did test 2. In test 2 the students’ reached 81 score which means they reached the average score of KKM and this research was success. In the conclusion, comic book helped students' reading comprehension considerably based on the study's findings.

Keywords: Reading comprehension and comic book.