Penerapan Strategi Know-Want to Know-Learned (Kwl) Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Membaca Pemahaman Murid Kelas Vi Upt SPF Sd Inpres Minasa Upa Kota Makassar

Reading comprehension skills are one of the important abilities in learning Indonesian at elementary school. However, the ability to read fluently is not always followed by the ability to understand the content of the reading. This study aims to describe the implementation of the Know-Want to Know-Learned (KWL) strategy and improve the reading comprehension skills of sixth-grade students at UPT SPF SD Inpres Minasa Upa, Makassar City. This study is a classroom action research carried out in two cycles with 24 sixth-grade students as research subjects. Each cycle consists of the stages of planning, action implementation, observation, and reflection. Data collection techniques used tests, observation, documentation, and reflection notes. The KWL strategy is carried out in three stages: Know, where students express prior knowledge related to the reading topic; Want to Know, where students make questions about things they want to know; and Learned, where students note and identifying new information obtained after reading. The research results show an improvement in students' reading comprehension skills. The students' average score increased from 59.6 in the pre-test to 69.6 in cycle I and 81.7 in cycle II. The percentage of learning mastery also increased from 12.50% in the pre-test to 37.50% in cycle I and 70.83% in cycle II. Based on these results, implementing the KWL strategy can improve the reading comprehension skills of sixth-grade students at UPT SPF SD Inpres Minasa Upa, Makassar City.