Reading skills (reading) is one of the four language skills that must be mastered by students. These skills must be improved in order that students' comprehension to the English reading materials becomes better. One of the new teaching reading model developed by researchers is the semi-extensive reading (SER) which is an adaptation of extensive reading. SER are conducted by researcher for developing student’s reading skills. This teaching reading model has been done so that there is improvisation in teaching reading.
This classroom action research (CAR) was conducted on students of XI grade IPS 1 class at State Islamic Senior High School of Sidoarjo (MAN Sidoarjo), even semester in academic year 2008-2009. This classroom action research type is experimental CAR because the researcher tried to apply the new model of teaching reading by using SER or semi-extensive reading.
The results of this experimental CAR shows that new teaching reading model, SER, has been applied in MAN sidoarjo. The result can be formulated as follows. Methods or learning strategies to read (reading) a new Semi-Extensive Reading (SER), can be accepted by students of MAN Sidaorjo, XI grade IPS 1 class . They are happy and enthusiastic with this teaching model. In addition, students' motivation to read English texts, especially the short story increases. The benefits received by students are that they get some information, knowledge from other friends, their reading skills also becomes better, and they believe that their reading scores will also be better.
