Reading is one of important English skills that must be acquired well by all of English learners who want to learn English as a foreign language. It is one of the ways to know information and knowledge in the world. Reading can give some advantages to the students. First, reading will make the students to be someone who have wide knowledge. Second, it can improve the students’ ability that will support their study and will be used for them in daily life. Third, the readers will get some information and ideas from the sources that are needed for certain purposes, like answering question that related to the text and it is common activity that happens in the process of learning reading.
In addition, the readers should have an effective way to comprehend the text in reading process. Therefore, in teaching reading the teacher should provide skills for the students about how to do an effective reading. Furthermore, as stated in KTSP (Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pelajar) 2006 in second years students at junior High School, students have to be able to understand monologue text such as narrative, recount and descriptive in written form of daily life. It means that the text did not easy to be comprehended by students. Most of students got difficulties in comprehending the text. First, they just know the meaning of words but did not know implicit meaning that is stated from text. Then they got difficulty to find out the topic and identify the specific information of the text which they have read.
However, based on the researcher’s pre-observation at SMP N 2 Panti the researcher found some conditions. First, the students would read the texts if the teacher asked them to read and then, when the teacher asked some questions related to the text, they could not answer it well. Then when the students found the difficult words in the text, they would skip reading and seem reluctant to continue it. They did not try to predict the meaning of words and sentences, although they had a chance to discuss the meaning of the words with their classmates or check it in their dictionary. Furthermore, most of the students also had difficulties to determine some information from the text, it occurred when the teacher explained the material, there were several students made noisy in the class. These conditions occurred when the teacher did not use appropriate strategy. It is proved that when the teacher used the strategy, she did not apply procedures of the strategy appropriately. For example, the teacher just gave the text and asked the students to answer questions of the text and collect it.
Based on those problems, it is important for the teacher to provide good teaching reading strategy in making the students understand about what they read. The teacher has to find appropriate strategy that can be applied in order to create teaching and learning process run successfully. With the appropriate strategy, the teacher can make students interested in teaching and learning process. It will require students to be successful in reading comprehension.