The purpose of this study is to know the effectiveness of GRASP Strategy in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension skill. The research question of this study is “Is there any significant effect of using GRASP strategy in improving students’ reading comprehensions skill?” In Reading lesson, the students cannot comprehend English text well. So, the researcher is interested to conduct a study about the Effectiveness of GRASP Strategy in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension skill of the second graders of SMAN 4 Kota Kediri. The research design of this study is quasi-experimental research. Which conduct two classes. The population of this research was the tenth grade students of SMAN 4 Kediri. The subject of this research are X MIA 3 as a control group and X MIA 4 as experimental group in teaching narrative text. Each group consist of 35 students. The procedures of the research were pre-test, treatment, and post-test. To collect the data, the researcher used the instrument that were given in pre-test and post-test. Then all the data analyzed using ANCOVA and helped by SPSS application. In this research, the researcher did 5 meeting in both experimental and control group. A meeting for pre-test, 3 meeting for treatment and a meeting for post-test. The researcher found that the average score for control group was 46.97(pre-test) and 75.77. The average score for experimental group was 54.62 (pre-test) and 82.23 (post-test). From the data analysis using ANCOVA, the result of significant value is (smaller) 0.002 than 0.05. Hα was accepted while Ho was rejected. It can be concluded that this research showed that there is significant effect on the reading comprehension skills of the students who were taught by using GRASP strategy and reading comprehension skill those, who were not taught by using GRASP strategy.

Ardyanti , Ahmadyana Dwi .   (2022). The Effectiveness Of Grasp Strategy In Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill. IAIN Kediri