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This research is to describe the The Effect of Bits and Pieces Gamecan improve the students’ writing in descriptive text of seventh grader at MTs Negeri Tarakan. This research objective was to find out the effectiveness of usingBits and Pieces Gameto improvethe students’ writing in descriptive text of seventh grader atMTs Negeri Tarakan.This design of the research was Pre-Experimental research. The total population was 122 students. The sample of this research was 7Cclass that consisted of 31students. To determine the sample, this research used purposive sampling techinique. The instrument of this research was written tests. The data analysis was pretest and posttest. In analyzing the data, the researcher used descriptive analysis in the SPSS.24.0.The research results showed that there was differencemean score between pretest and posttest. It was proven by the result of the students’ mean score. The mean score in pretest was49.86 and in posttest was66.81. It was indicated that the mean has increased to 16.95. It can be seen that the improvement of the students’ mean score in the posttest was higher than pretest and it indicated that there was difference from students’ writing score between pretest and posttest. The result of paired sample t-test showed that t-test computation was 14.122higher than t-table (1.691). On the other word, 14.122>1.691it means (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.The results of data analysis proved that the results of teaching writing by using Bits and Pieces Gamebe able to improve students’ writing in descriptive text. Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that Bits and Pieces Game is effective to improve students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at seventh grader students’ of MTs Negeri Tarakan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari keefektifan dari menggunakan metode Bits and Pieces Game untuk meningkatkan pemahaman menulis siswa kelas VII-C di MTs Negeri Tarakan. Desain dari penelitian ini adalah Pra-Eksperimen. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas VII MTs Negeri Tarakan tahun pelajaran 2019/2020. Peneliti menggunakan Purposive Sampling dalam menentukan sampel. Siswa kelas VII-C terdiri dari 31 siswa adalah sampel dalam penelitian ini. Instrument yang digunakan untuk mengambil data dalam penelitian ini adalah tes tertulis. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah Deskriptif Analisis dengan bantuan SPSS 22.0. Hasil dari analisis data menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan nilai rata-rata antara Pretest dan Posttest. Nilai Pretest adalah 57.16 dan Posttest adalah 78.32. Terdapat peningkatan nilai rata-rata sebesar 16.95. Hasil dari Paired Sample Test adalah ttest=10.629 dan ttable adalah 20.42. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa Ha diterima dan H0 ditolak. Berdasarkan hasil analisis tersebut menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan metode Bits and Pieces Game dalam pemahaman menulis membawa pengaruh terhadap peningkatakan penguasaan dan pemahaman menulis siswa kelas VII-C MTs Negeri Tarakan 2019/2020.