i THE EFFECT OF READ, IMAGE, DESCRIBE, EVALUATE, AND REPEAT (RIDER) STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NEWS ITEM TEXTAT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 11 KERINCI ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

ix Keywords: Rider Strategy, Reading Comprehension, News Item Text Reading is one of the basic skills of language learning. It cannot be separated from other skills of language learning besides writing, speaking, and listening. Those skills must be learned all by English language learners. The objective of this research was to know if there is any significant effect of using Read, Image, Describe, Evaluate, And Repeat (RIDER) Strategy Toward Students’ Reading Comprehension ofNews Item Text At the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 11 Kerinci Academic Year 2021/2022. The type of the reseach was quasi experimental research. The population of the research was the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 11 Kerinci Academic Year 2021/2022, it was 50 students. Sample of this research consisted of 50 students from two classes. There were experiment class and control class. The analysis data used t-test. The result of the research showed that there was significant effect of using Read, Image, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat (RIDER) Strategy toward Students’ Reading Comprehension ofNews Item Text at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 11 Kerinci Academic Year 2021/2022. It could be seen of hypothesis was gotten the mean of control class was 57.28while the experimental class was 66.08. And after doing t-test, it was found that tobserve = 2.6> ttable = 1.67. It can be concluded that there was significant effect of using Read, Image, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat (RIDER) Strategy toward Students’ Reading Comprehension ofNews Item Text at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 11 Kerinci Academic Year 2021/2022.The teacher are suggested should always give the motivation to the students to study hard, and the teacher can be choices RIDER strategy for in learning English especially in reading comprehension.