The Use of Pictures Story Books to Improve Reading Comprehesion of 7th Graders in MTS Fajar Sidiq Palembang

The topic of this study is “The Use of Pictures Story Books to Improve Reading Comprehesion of 7th Graders in MTS Fajar Sidiq Palembang”. This discussion of this lesson is to answer the question of is there a significant improvement between students learning to use pictures Story Books to use reading story books and not to reading story books ? In this study, researcher used quansi experiments using pre test and post test. The population is eighth grade,especially grade 7.1 and 7.2. One of the classes used as the experimental class is class of 7.1 and the control class is class of 7.2. The use of media image to improve students readng skills is applied to the experimental class, namely class of 7.1. While the control class does not use images. Each class held treatment and the research lasted for 16 meetings with different pictures at each meeting. From the results of the analysis of this study, it shows that in class VII.2 before receiving Picture Story Books treatment, students got an average pretest score of 1,63 with the highest score of 3 and the lowest score of 1 while the average score of class VII students after receiving Picture Story Books treatment got the average value of the post test is 2,54 with the highest score of 4 and the lowest being 1. In pre-test and post-test, the use of Picture Story Books with narrative text saw a number of advancements.