The objective of the study is to explain the effectiveness of guiding questions to teach recount text writing. The population of this study was eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Pamotan. The method used in this research was experimental and the design was quantitative. In this research, the researcher used two classes which have similar characteristic as the participant of the research. They are VIII E as the experimental and VIII H as the control group. Each class consist of 30 students. The experimental class was taught using guiding questions and the control class was not taught using guiding questions. In collecting the data, the researcher conducted writing test which was divided into pre-test and post-test. The data collected were analyzed using t-test. The result of this research showed that there was significant difference average score between the students who were taught using guiding questions and without guiding questions. According to the result of statistical calculation, it could be seen that the average score of experimental class was 74.5 and the average score of control class was 68. Furthermore, it was obtained that Image is higher than Image (2.65 Image 2.00). So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. From the statement above, it can be concluded that guiding questions is effective to teach recount text writing to the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Pamotan in the academic year of 2019/2020.