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In teaching reading, teaching strategy and reading interest influences students reading comprehension. It can be used as a variation of teaching strategy in teaching reading comprehension of Recount text. The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of using Listen Read Discuss (LRD) and Reading Encode Annotate Ponder (REAP) strategy and students reading interest on reading comprehension achievement of Recount text. The researcher here needs to find whether LRD or REAP strategy is more effective in teaching and learning process, especially in teaching reading comprehension. Reading comprehension is constructing meaning that is reasonable and accurate by connecting what has been read to what the reader already knows and by thinking about all of this information until it is understood. Recount text is a text with a purpose to retell the readers about something which happens in the past time through a sequence of events. The technique of analyzing the data applied in this study is quantitative data. The quantitative data are taken from the tests. The validity of the instrument is measured in terms of content and constructs validity. The sample of this study is eighth students of Junior High School.