Abstrak
This research was conducted based on problems found by researcher in the learning process about reading comprehension using the Literature Circles (LC) strategy. Literature Circles (LC) is a strategy that refers to classroom activity for literacy reading. It is a reading strategy that can improve learners’ working in a group and playing a certain role in a group, after that discuss what learners already read from the text. The purpose of this research was to find out whether the use of the Literature Circles strategy in teaching reading comprehension for VIII grade at UPTD SMP N 3 Kec.Guguak has significant effect or not. The method used in this research was descriptive quantitative research, which aims to describe the significant effect of using Literature Circles (LC) strategy on reading comprehension learners. The population of this research were all of the learners in VIII grade of UPTD SMP N 3 Kec.Guguak. Then, the instrument used in this research was a reading comprehension test. According to the finding, it showed that in indicators the identifying the main idea and identifying generic structure in the text got the highest percentage of score (91.6%). Meanwhile, the result percentage of average score in indicator the vocabulary in the context got the lowest percentage of score (57.3%). Even though there was low score in those one reading comprehension’s indicator, but the total percentage of average score from all indicators in reading comprehension learners was 79.5%. According to the table of interpretation of the effectiveness percentage, 79.5% indicated ‘Effective” category. So, using Literature Circles strategy was effective to improve the learners reading comprehension. It means, there is significant effect of using Literature Circles (LC) strategy on reading comprehension learners. Keywords : Reading Comprehension and Literature Circles strategy.