The Guided Reading Strategy (GRS) was used in a Classroom Action Research (CAR) in order to find out whether it could improve the students reading comprehension or not. This CAR was aimed to study the implementation procedures of GRS trying to improve the reading comprehension of students. The average mean score (AMS) from the initial test of the students was 67. Then after cycle I, the AMS was 71, which was still qualified with score of “C”. Following the second cycle, the AMS went up to 81 which meant that there was an improvement of 10 points and brought the AMS up to level “B” which was qualified as “good”. This met the criteria set for successful improvement. The activity performance of the students in cycle I averaged 2.43 and went up to 3.01 in cycle II which met the criteria for “good” and for success in the indicator set. The activity performance of the researcher in cycle I averaged 2.39 and rose to 3.10 in cycle II which also met the criteria for “good” and for success. From the questionnaire to measure the response of the students toward the use of the GRS 90 % chose “agree or strongly agree” which was considered as a positive response. This met the criteria for success for improving the reading comprehension abilities of the sample students.
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