Abstract
Activities and process skills intensive reading class VI students of SDN 029 Sungaipinang still low, it is seen that the students have not been able to read intensively so that the difficulties in determining the basic idea of each paragraph and the main idea of the story. This is due to the habit of reading inefficient. The research objective to increase activity and process intensive reading skills using PQRST strategy.This type of research is a classroom action research conducted in twocycles. Each cycle consists of four stages: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The subjects were students of sixth grade students with a number of 15 people. Data were obtained through observation sheets, field notes and student worksheets. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively. The results of the analysis of data on the first and second cycle shows that the activity and the process of intensive reading skills of students increased. At the first meeting of the first cycle phase prabaca aspects that are predicting the contents of the report gained 70.83 and made a key question learners acquire 66.66. While at the current stage of reading aspects that are answered questions acquire 71.66 and write the main facts learners acquire 63.33. At the second meeting of the first cycle phase pascabaca aspects that are written summary based on reports received 65 text and revise the summary based on the text of learners acquire 63.33. At the first meeting of the second cycle stage prabaca aspects that predict the contents of the report is the result of 72.5 and making key questions learners get the results 70%. Read the current stage aspects that are answering questions and write the results of placement 70.83 main facts learners acquire 70.83. At the second meeting of the assessed aspects pascabaca stage is to write a summary based on the text of the report the results of placement 74.16 and revise writing text summaries based learners acquire 73.33. Based on the results concluded that the use of PQRST strategy can improve the activity and the process of reading skills of sixth grade students of SDN 029 Sungaipinang.