Improving Students' Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text Through Scaffolding Strategy at Grade X of SMAN 1 Tukka, Tapanuli Tengah

There were two problems faced by the students of SMAN 1 Tukka, Tapanuli Tengah. The first problem was the teachers used complicated reading texts, which were not interested to the students. The second problem was students were not interested and motivated in comprehending reading texts. In other words, the students’ score on reading comprehension were poor. To solve these problems, the researcher conducted a classroom action research by using Scaffolding Strategy to find out whether using scaffolding strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension and to find out the factors that influenced students’ reading comprehension at SMAN 1 Tukka, Tapanuli Tengah.s The research result showed that Scaffolding Strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension. This could be seen from the result of students’ score on pre-test and reading comprehension test administered at the end of each cycle. The students’ score increased significantly from average of 54,86 through 62,2 to 68,61 and 73,19. Those data were also confirmed to the result of observation analysis of students’ reaction, it was found that almost all of students were interested to Scaffolding Strategy and most students could understand the text easily. In conclusion, Scaffolding Strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension at X5, students of SMAN 1 Tukka, Tapanuli Tengah. Hopefully, the research result could be positive input for other researcher and teachers to conduct the research especially related to the teaching of reading.