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ABSTRACT Alvin Khaira. Nim 2318.017, “the effect of anticipation-reaction guide strategy towards students’ reading comprehension in recount text at the eighth grade of SMPN 3 Palembayan”. English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Education, State Islamic University (UIN) of Bukittinggi, 2022. Reading is one of most crucial skils that students should master to understand the writer’s purpose. By reading, the reader can find out some information in the world. Not only that, students learning process in English class also depends on how well they can understand the lesson through Reading Activity and it can increase the student’s knowlegde. Neverthless, there are a lot of students who still got difficulties in comprhend text while during lesson activity. Based on the problems, it resuled an idea to conduct teaching reading comprehension strategy by the use anticipation reaction guide srateggy to help sudents improving their reading comprehension. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of using Anticipation-Reaction Guide Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension in Recount text. This research was conducted to the eighth grade of SMPN 3 Palembayan. In this study, researcher used quantitative method with quasiexperimental design by comparing two classes(experimen and control class). The subject of this study was egihth grade, namely VIII.1 and VIII.2. VIII.1 was experimental class with 21students and VIII.2 was control class with 22 students.in the collecting the data, test wich consisted of pre test and post test were applied. The data was analyzed by using T- Test Formula. From the result and accounting the pre test and post test scores of the experiment class, t was found that the t- obtained (2.16) was higher than the t- table (2.021) with degree of freedom (df) = 40 and level of significant was 0,05. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which mean that there was significant effect of anticipatin reaction guide strategy to the students reading comprehension on recount text. Then, the calculation of post test both of classes, it was obtained that the t – obtained was (2.73) was higher than the t-table (2.009). the data was got through pretest and posttest to experimental and control class. In addition, the calculation impovement of the mean score control and Experimen class is the ekperimen class ( 56.90 > 50.91) higher than control class (13.09 > 11.14). So it can be concluded that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which mean that anticipation reaction guide strategy is better than students conventional class in teaching reading comprehension on recount text. From the result of the data, teaching reading comprehension through Anticipation reaction guide strategy gave more significant effect to improving students’ reading comprehension. Keywords : Reading Comprehension, Anticipation Guide, Recount Text