Improving Students’ Writing Skill of Narrative Text By Using Think-Pair-Share Technique At Grade X.13 SMAN 5 Bukittinggi.

The purpose of this research are ; first to explain how Think-Pair-Share Technique can improve students' writing skill. Second, it is to find out the factors that influence the changes of students' writing skill of Narrative text at Grade X.13 academic year 2015/2016 of SMAN 5 Bukittinggi through the use of Think-PairShare Technique. This reaseach is an Classroom Action Research which use qualitative and quantitative instrument to get the data. Quantitative data were analyzed from the score of test and task and qualitative data were analyzed from observation and interview of the students of X.13 SMAN 5 Bukittinggi. From the result of the research, the writer found that Think-Pair-Share Technique can improve students’ skill in writing narrative text from cycle 1 to cycle 3. The improvement of achievement was proved from the result of the students writing score where they could their score gradually. It also could be seen on students’ performance during teaching and learning process. The students became more active and all students were involved in teaching learning process. Students were more enthusiastic in joining the lesson, so the class became more conducive. From this research, it was also obtained that the improvements of the students writing were influenced by four factors; classroom activities, the materials, classroom management, and teacher’s approach.