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The Aimed of this research was to determine whether the use of picture series media has an effect to improve the writing result of eight grade students at SMPN 4 Tarakan. the population of this research where eight grade students of SMPN 4 Tarakan in the academic year 2021/2022. the number of samples in this study were 31 students of class VIII-6. this research used a pre-experimental design one group pretest and posttest design with purposive sampling technique. the results showed that there was a difference between the pretest and posttest. this is proven by the result of the average score of students. the mean score of the students on the pretest was 59.38 and the result on the posttest was 73.51. it can be seen that there is a significant increase in the average score of students in the posttest which is higher than the pretest. therefore, the result of the paired t-test show that the t-test of 7.573 was higher than the t-table of 2.042. based on the result of the test the researcher concluded that the use of picture series proved to be effective in improving the eight graders students learning outcomes in writing narrative text at SMPN 4 Tarakan.