Effects of PBL Model and Reading Interest towards Explanatory Text Writing Skill

This Research about effect of PBL learning model, and high and low reading interest towards explanation text writing skill of students class VIII SMP N 1 Sungai Geringging.Type of this research is quantitative research with factorial experimental design. Population amount 178 of 8th grade, sample of 60 students. Data collection, namely the instrument of reading interest questionnaire and the test instrument of explanatory text skills performance. Analyzing and discussing data is done by using descriptively-analysis of experimental research.The results can be concluded. First, students' explanatory text writing skills taught using PBL models are higher than students taught using conventional methods. Second, the students' explanatory text writing skills are high in reading interest, higher than students who have low reading interest. Third, there is no interaction between PBL learning models and conventional learning methods with students' interest in reading (high and low) in influencing the explanatory text writing skills.