Abstract name : sakinah student no. : 1006102020076 study program : english education title : teaching reading comprehension through survey, question, read, recite, review (sq3r) strategy (an experimental study at smp negeri 8 banda aceh) keywords: reading comprehension,sq3r strategy this study was a quantitative research about the implementation of survey, question, read, recite, review (sq3r) a strategy for solvingspecific questions individually and for helping students to memorize teaching materials, in teaching reading descriptive text. it was intended to find out whether or not sq3r strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension. the subject of this study was all students of class viii-5 of smp negeri8 banda aceh which was chosen by using simple random sampling. the reason for conducting this study was due to the fact that students’ reading comprehension was still low. moreover, the design used in this study was one group pre-test post-test