The background of this research discusses the effectiveness of Think-Pair-Share to teach narrative text writing. As we know that writing is the hardest skill compared with the other skills. In writing skill, at least there are five aspects that must be mastered by the students. They are content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanic. To make the students motivated and enjoyable in learning, the teacher should use interesting teaching method. The researcher tried to use think-pair-share as a technique to solve the problem and identify the students’ ability in writing especially on narrative text.

Think-Pair-Share is a technique that allows students to transfer their thought cooperatively with their partners, they can help each other so that it makes the students easy to finish their work as fast as possible. This research question is: how is the effectiveness of think-pair-share to teach narrative texts writing at MTs Riyadlotut Thalabah Sedan Rembang?. The objective of the research is to identify the effectiveness of think-pair-share to teach narrative text writing with the eighth grade students of MTs Riyadlotut Thalabah Sedan- Rembang in the academic year of 2012/2013.
The population of the research was the eighth grade students of MTs Riyadlotut Thalabah Sedan-Rembang. The research method was experimental research, which conducted in two classes. The researcher used class VIII A as the experimental class that had 30 students who were taught writing narrative text by using Think-Pair-Share technique and class VIII B was used as the control class that also had 30 students who were taught using conventional method.

The data are gathered through test and documentation. There were two tests, they were pre-test and post-test. All data then analyzed using quantitative approach which used some formula to find the normality, homogeneity, test of average and hypothesis test. The researcher found that the pre-test average of experimental class was 69.23 and the control class was 70.33. While, the post- test average of the experimental class was 77.83 and the control class was 72.70. The obtained t-test was 4.654 whereas the t-table was 1.67 for α = 5%. The t-test score was higher than the t-table (4.654> 1.67). It meant that Ha was accepted while Ho was rejected, so Think-Pair-Share technique is effective to teach students in narrative text writing.