Teacher’s Strategies inTeaching Reading Comprehension of News Item Text for Grade 12 Students’of Man 1 Medan

The objective of this study was to investigate teacher‟s strategies used by theteacher in teaching reading comprehension of news item text and to find out why
those strategies used by the teacher in teaching reading comprehension of twelfth grade students at MAN 1 Medan. The research design of this study was qualitative research. The subject of this study was one English teacher who taught twelfth grade students at MAN 1 Medan. The instruments of this study were observation checklist, video recording and interview. The findings of this study were that, the teacher used four strategies, Scaffolding, Think aloud, Reciprocal teaching and QARs. Scaffolding strategy, Teacher frequently used scaffolding strategies to help students learn to read correctly. Think aloud, teacher used this strategy by talking openly about their thoughts while reading the text, thus giving students direct insight into the reading comprehension process. Reciprocal teaching, strategy in
which students and teachers share the role of teacher by allowing both to lead discussions about assigned readings. QARs, the teacher able to know how far their students understand what the teacher has given to them. According to the analysis interview, the reason why teachers used those types of strategies on students' reading comprehension was to help the students understand the reading text and
guide the students to focus more on the text. To assist their students in overcoming difficulties in comprehending texts, particularly the various aspects of reading, and also to assist students in developing the meaning contained in the text reading