Teaching Reading Comprehension By Using Pictures

: Reading is very important skill in the education field, students need to be exercised and trained in order to have a good reading skill. Unfortunately, mostly students are still have difficulties to master the sub skills of reading such as finding general picture, finding main idea and finding specific information. Then, to solve that problem, media can be used such as pictures which also can create enjoyable classroom, therefore can make students motivated to study. Using pictures especially individual picture and picture series in this study also proposed to help the students improve their reading achievement. This study uses quasi-experimental design which the samples are divided into experimental class (IXA) and control class (IXB). The data needed of this study are collected from pre-test and post-test. The findings from the post test of the experimental and control class indicate that using pictures is significantly effective in improving students’ reading comprehension. It can be seen from experimental class pre-test and post-test averages are 42.50 and 75.45, while the control class only gets 50 for pre-test and 69.77 for post-test. Moreover, the t-test 2.08 is higher than t-table (1.68). In conclusion, the experimental class improves better than control class.