Teaching Reading Comprehension On Narrative Text Using Numbered Heads Together Technique

: the purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of teaching reading comprehension on narrative text using numbered heads together technique. Numbered heads together is a technique that can make the students become more active in teaching learning. The writer uses Pre-experimental research and the sample of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMAN 2 Sungai Kakap in which consist of 32 students. The technique of data collecting used is measurement technique and the tool of data collecting is multiple choice test. The data were calculated with the result of students` pre-test is 5.03, the post-test is 7.38. The students` different score between pre-test and post-test is 2.35. From the calculation of t-test that the observed t-test is 13.23 with the degree of freedom 31which is the significant of level of 0.05. The writer finds out that the result of t-test is bigger than t-table (13.23 > 2,204). It is found that the Effect Size (ES) analysis of the effectiveness of teaching reading comprehension on narrative text using numbered heads together technique is 2.17. It is categorized “high”. As the result, teaching reading comprehension on narrative text using numbered heads together technique is highly effective in terms of increasing the students` mean score of narrative text reading comprehension