SQ3R IMPLEMENTATION METHOD TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY INDONESIAN SUBJECT IN ELEMENTARY STUDENT

The research aims is to improve students' reading comprehension on the subjects of Indonesian in the fourth grade with 28 students. The research is done two cycles consisting of 4 meetings. Wherein each meeting consists of four phases: planning, implementation, observation and reflection. Data collection techniques by using tests and observation. The results of the study can be seen that the first cycle of 28 students, there are as many as 53% of students who already belong to the completeness criteria reading comprehension and 47% of students who have not been included in the criteria complete with classical values of 67.14 %. When compared with the value of the initial conditions, there has been a slight increase but has not reached the expected criteria. Based on the research results Cycle II can be seen as many as 28 students were already included in the criteria of completeness reading comprehension. with the classical value of 91.60%. Based on this action research can be concluded that by using the "SQ3R" in Indonesian subjects can improve students' reading comprehension. Based on this, we recommend the method "SQ3R" used by teachers as an alternative to teachers in an effort to improve students' reading comprehension on the Indonesian subjects and the other subject. Recommended that teachers can use in teaching methods SQ3R.