This research applied Graphic Organizer and Context Clues to show the readers that using methods helps students understand descriptive text. This study aims to explain the effectiveness of using a Graphic Organizer and Context Clues for teaching reading of descriptive text. The researcher analyzed the effectiveness differences of using Graphic Organizer and Context Clues methods by comparing student learning outcomes after treatment and before treatment. The study employed a quantitative method using a pre-experimental study that focused on one group pretest-posttest research design. During the study, students were given treatment, pre-test, and post-test. The research was conducted with the number of respondents 20 female students of class VIII B MTs Nurul Ali Magelang in the academic year of 2020/2021. The researcher conducted treatments twice. The first treatment used Graphic Organizer, and the second treatment used Context Clues. The instruments used in this research were pretest, posttest, and questionnaire. The researcher processed the posttest data to determine which methods had higher value. The results of this research are explained as follow: 1) the used “predict & check” and “words star” of Graphic Organizer method is less effective in the class, the value of N-Gain percent showed 53.01%, 2) the used of analyze unfamiliar word by seeing at the words nearby of Context Clues method is more effective, the value of N-Gain percent showed 76.63%, 3) the effectiveness of two methods showed that Context Clues is more effective taught to students, which means that Graphic Organizer is not effectively applied to students. The difference in significance value between Graphic Organizer and Context Clues method is 23.62%.