THE USE OF STORY PYRAMID STRATEGY IN TEACHING WRITING OF NARRATIVE TEXT

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Abstract Many students often feel confuse to pour their ideas into written form. Therefore, teacher have to use strategy that can help them in writing skill. This study aimed to investigate the implementation of story pyramid strategy in teaching writing of narrative text and figure out the advantages of using story pyramid strategy in teaching writing of narrative text at XI graders of SMA Negeri 2 Pekalongan. The writer used descriptive qualitative method in this research. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the implementation of story pyramid strategy are as follows: after the teacher showed the example of story pyramid outline and the development text, students were guided to filled out the empty outline based on their own ideas. Once the outline was completed, they developed the outline into a narrative text. Story pyramid strategy could make them easy to make a storyline, makes it easier to organize text, and can compose narrative text easily. The students’ mean in writing score was 72. Moreover, the students were interested in story pyramid strategy since they never heard about it before and it was the first time they wrote narrative text used story pyramid.