The Effect of Guided Reading and Summarizing Procedure (Grasp) on Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill(A Study on First Grade Student of SMAN 4 Banda Aceh)

As one of four skills that should be mastered by English students, reading is often considered as the difficult one. It leads many experts to research the effective methods and strategies in overcoming this difficulty. Related to this, the writer is interested to use Guided Reading and Summarizing Procedure towards students’ reading comprehension skill. Therefore, this study entitled “The Effect of Guided Reading and Summarizing Procedure (GRASP) on Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill.” This study was conducted to seek how significant the effect of learning by GRASP strategy and students’ responses toward this strategy.This quantitative research used experimental study and took samples by the purposive sampling technique. The samples were consisted of two groups, they were class X-IA4 which consist of 32 students as experimental group and class X-IA2 which consist of 32 students as control group at SMAN 4 Banda Aceh. In collecting the data, the writer gave pre-test and post-test, and distributed questionnaire. Then, the writer analyzed the data using statistical calculation. The result of the test showed that the mean score of the pre-test of experimental class was 54; meanwhile, the post-test was 78 that revealed that the improvement of the mean was 24. Furthermore, the result of t-test calculation showed that ttest was higher than the ttable (ttest= 5.21 > ttable = 1.66). So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. The result of questionnaire shows that most of students gave positive responses after learning by using this strategy in which 90% of them agreed that guided reading and summarizing procedure helps them in comprehending the reading. It can be concluded that GRASP gave a significant effect on students’ reading score and positive influences for them.