This study discussed about Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in teaching reading. the aims of this study are to describe the teacher’s strategies in implementing HOTS in Teaching Reading and to find out the challenges that the English teacher gets in implementing HOTS in Teaching Reading.
A qualitative study was used in this research. The participant of this study was English teacher at Islamic Junior High School of Al-Mumtaz Banjarmasin. Furthermore, the data were collected through observation, interview and documentation, then analysed it by the theory from Miles and Huberman, namely: data reduction, data display and conclusions.
The results of this study were the strategies that teacher used in implementing HOTS in teaching reading were divergent question, group discussion and giving feedback. The problems that teacher faced in implementing HOTS in teaching reading are teacher were running out of time because student are very lack at vocabulary and students mastery in English, teacher needed to find out another source beside the school book in preparing the HOTS learning and the last school enviroment did not suitable for learning especially in tools that support teaching activities.