<![CDATA[This study aims to determine the effect of the Picture Reading Strategy on the ability of Year 8 students at SMPN 2 Gerung to predict the main ideas of texts in the 2024/2025 academic year. Although previous studies have examined picture media for general reading comprehension, empirical evidence on a picture-based reading strategy that specifically trains idea prediction before reading among junior high school students remains limited. The novelty of this study lies in operationalizing the Picture Reading Strategy as a four-step cycle—observing pictures, making predictions, reading the passage, and confirming predictions—and testing its effect through a pretest–posttest control group design. This study employs a quantitative approach with a purposive sample of 48 students (24 in the experimental group; 24 in the control group). The instrument is a 20-item multiple-choice test measuring five indicators. Data are analyzed using descriptive statistics, Shapiro-Wilk normality tests, Levene’s homogeneity test, and an Independent Samples t-Test. The results show that the experimental group’s mean score increases from 49.75 to 81.79, while the control group’s mean score increases from 48.50 to 67.50. The t-test yields a significance value of 0.000 < 0.05. Therefore, the Picture Reading Strategy has a significant effect on students’ ability to predict the main ideas of texts.]]>
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