Reading is one of the four language skills. It plays an important role in language learning and must be taught to school students. The important thing in reading is reading comprehension. This is important because without reading comprehension ability, students will not be able to understand what is read and it will be difficult to improve their skills, especially English. Because the students are still lacked understanding of reading comprehension in the reading class. The students are not interested to read English text and they are not motivated to learn because the students have lack of vocabularies. Those reasons made the researcher interested to conduct a research about the better way to teach students using a technique which is paragraph hamburger strategy in this research. The aim of this research is to explain the effectiveness of Paragraph hamburger strategy to teach reading comprehension on recount text at the tenth-grader students of MAN 1 Sragen in the academic year of 2020/2021. The sample of this research is 43 students. The method in this study was a quantitative method. The research design of this research was experimental study.There were two variables in this research. First, paragraph hamburger treatment (independent variable), and the second one was with scanning treatment (dependent variable), these two groups focused on reading subject matter. In other side there were also two groups in this research, which are experimental group and control group. The instruments of this study were test. For sampling technique, this research used purposive sampling. In addition, to attain the validity and reliability of the instrument, it used ANATES. Furthermore, to analyze the data of this study using SPSS Statistics 23. The result of the study explained that the mean score of students in experimental class was 77.27 and the mean score of students in controlled class was 70.00. It meant that there was significant difference in mean score of both classes. The hypotheses testing showed that sig. 2 tailed values (p) was 0.006 while alpha α was 0.05. In other words, p < α. It indicated that H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. In other words, paragraph hamburger strategy was effective to teach reading comprehension on recount text at the tenth grade students in MA Negeri 1 Sragen