An Analysis of Student's Reading Speed of Descriptive Text at VIII Grade SMPN 1 Rambah Samo

Abstract

This research about reading speed students. The population of this research was 119 students. Thesamples in this research were 27 students. Researcher used cluster random sampling/random to takesamples that focus on one class. The instrument in this research is reading test. Based on a readingspeed skills test, the average speed of reading students, 2 students were able to reach 100-149 WPM inslow category and 25 other students are only able to achieve 50-99 WPM in very slow category. So,the skill of reading speed students at VIII grade in SMPN 1 Rambah Samo was very slo