Objectives of the Research

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 8 Pre-reading. In this first step or before reading activity, is to prepare students for what they are going to read. 3 The students think about content of the texts. It means that the students can imagine the story that presented by the writer. Therefore students can explore their mind before reading the text. It is a warm-up in reading section. Second step is While-reading. This step is the core activities that the students try to comprehend the text and understand about the content of the text. The students can apply appropriate strategies to make they comprehend the text easier. The last step is Post-reading. Post reading step can help students to connect what they have read with their own idea and experience. So, from those steps, The students find the best strategy in order to analyze what they read then collect and combine the important points from the texts so the students can find meaning of the text correctly and comprehend the text completely. From the ideas above, it can be concluded that reading comprehension is the power to get an idea or meaning from a written text, understand it according to experiential background or prior knowledge, and interpret it with the reader’s needs and purpose. Comprehension of the material studies is useful for student. It helps the reader to know what they search while reading process.

B. Reading Strategies for Reading Comprehension

Strategies are defined as learning techniques, behaviour, problem-solving or study skills which make learning more effective and efficient. 4 According to Garner defined reading strategies as generally deliberate, planful activities which are undertaken by an active reader, many times to remedy perceived cognitive failure, and facilitate reading comprehension. 5 So, reading strategies are the process used by students to increase their comprehension or overcome comprehension failures. 3 Davies and Eric Pearese, Success in English Teaching. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 92-93. 4 Oxford, R. Crookall, D 1989. Reseach on language learning strategies:Method, findings, and instructional issue. Modern Language Journal , 73, 404-419. 5 R. Garner, Metacognition and reading comprehension. Norwood, NJ: Albex, 1987.