The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of Warming-up For
Reading (WFR) for teaching reading at the Eight Grade students of SMP
Muhammadiyah 2 Purwokerto in the Academic Year 2015/ 2016. This research
was conducted by using quasi experimental research. The participants of this
research were the Eight Grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Purwokerto.
There were two classes who participated in this research; class C as the control
class and class D as the experimental class. Pre-test and post-test were used in
collecting the data. The test consist of multiple choice items. Based on the
computation, t-test result was 0.864 and the result of t-table at the significant level
0.05 with degree of freedom 48 was 0.281. The calculation of t-obtained with ttable
was concluded that t-obtained was higher than t-table (0.864>0.281). In
short, the hypothesis is accepted which meant that Warming-up For
Reading(WFR) was effective for teaching reading at the Eight Grade students of
SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Purwokerto in the Academic Year 2015/ 2016.