Correlational study, reading strategy, reading comprehension abaility.

The purpose of this research was to know whether there were any correlation among students‟ reading strategy and their ability in reading comprehension. This research was conducted at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 3 Kerinci that consisted of 72 students as the sample. The design of this research was quantitatif descriptive and the technique used in this research was a correlational technique. In collecting the data, the researcher was distributed questionnaire to the respondents to assess students‟ reading strategy. Meanwhile, students‟ reading ability was assessed by a test.