THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PICTURE SERIES IN TEACHING READING OF NARRATIVE TEXT ATTHE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMPN 5 ALALAK SCHOOL YEAR 2019/2020

Picture Series is a method or strategy given to the students to assist them have a better understanding on reading instruction by activating students’ background knowledge and word recognition exercises used interactively. Reading ability is one of the important points in learning English. It is the teacher's job to attract students' interest in learning, which usually learning to read makes them bored having to change their perception with a fun and interesting activity while learning. Picture series is a visual media that contains the sequence of images that one with another picture is interrelated and declare an event. The media are given the form of visual images of sequential stories to make it easier for students to imagine a narrative text answer the questions afterward. The teacher will give a series of drawings and give random text and the students try to arrange the text. after the pictures and text are arranged neatly students are asked to fill in the questions that are connected with the text. This media will attract students' interest in reading with visual assistance. Usually, visual abilities support the imagination and thinking of students. The purpose of this research is to identify the effectiveness of picture series for teaching reading. This research used pre-experimental.To collect data, researchers used tests. The tests were carried out pretest and posttest. Pretest is done to determine student achievement in teaching reading before giving treatment. Meanwhile, posttest was conducted to determine student achievement after treatment in teaching reading.The work hypothesis is tested in this research state that students who are taught reading of narrative text by using Picture Series have better score on the posttest than on the pretest. The t-test results appear on the student's scoring data in reading coming to find that the t-value is 21,013 while the critical t-value of 5% from one tailed test is 2,052. This shows that the work hypothesis is accepted because the obtained t-value exceeds the critical t-value