Abstrak
The study aimed to determine whether there is a significant effect of the Make a Match strategy on the reading comprehension of ninth-grade students at MTs Al-Khairaat Tarakan. The method used in this study was pre-experimental research. The population in this study was 23 ninth-grade students at MTs Al-Khairaat Tarakan. The research instrument was a narrative text reading test with 25 multiple-choice questions. To analyze the data, the researcher used the SPSS program version 27.0. The study results showed that the average post-test score after using the Make a Match strategy was higher than the pre-test score before using the Make a Match strategy. The average pre-test score was 49.22, and the post-test score was 59.65, which increased by 10.43 points. It means there is a significant effect on the post-test score compared to the pre-test score. The results of the paired sample t-test also showed that the Sig. (2-tailed) value is below 0.05 (0.001 0.05), meaning that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. It can be concluded that using the Make a Match strategy significantly influences the reading comprehension of narrative texts of class IX students at MTs Al-Khairaat Tarakan.