Effect of Snow Ball Strategy in the Comprehension Reading of Intermediate School Female Students in Reading and Texts

This objective of this paper is to identify the effect of the snowball strategy in the reading comprehension of second grade students in the reading and texts. To achieve this objective, the researcher developed the zero hypothesis. The zero hypothesis states that there is no statistically signifcant difference at the level of signifcance (0.05) between the average grades of the students of the experimental group who will study the reading and texts according to the snowball strategy and the average score of the students of the control group who will study the same subject according to the usual method of reading comprehension. In order to achieve this, her experience was applied in the second half of the academic year (2017–2018). The study sample consisted of (65) students of the second grade intermediate in Sumaya intermediate school for girls. They were distributed randomly into two groups. The frst one consisted of (32) students in the experimental group and (33) students in the control group. The two groups were rewarded in the following variables: (The age of the students calculated in months, the Arabic language grades in the frst semester, and the parents educational achievement).