<![CDATA[This experimental study aimed to find out the improvement of the Context Clues Strategy on Reading Descriptive Text Comprehension. This research was used one group pre-test and post-test design. The reason for conducting this research because students tend to used dictionaries when they read English text in order to find the meaning of the difficult words. However, they may not use a dictionary or some stuff that can help them to understand English text in joining examination. This condition makes students’ difficult to comprehend the English text because they faced different contexts. So, students should know about reading strategies to increase reading comprehension without using a dictionary or another instrument. One of the appropriate reading strategies to increase the students’ reading comprehension descriptive text-ability is context clues. The sample of this research was the seven grade students’ especially class VII/D at SMP NEGERI 1 SIDAMANIK. The participants were 34 students. The step of the research procedure is conducting pre-test, treatment, post-test, and data analysis. The data analysis by using table categories. The data analysis showed there is a significant improvement in using the Context Clues Strategy on reading descriptive text comprehension. The finding also proved that in the pre-test students mean score was only 39.11 and the post-test score was improved to 71.11 and standard deviation of the pre-test score was only 6.78 and the post-test score was 12.08]]>
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