Teaching reading to young learners in Indonesia still has many difficulties due to the lack of students' reading habits. The narrative story is one way to improve young learners' reading skills. A related aim of the current study was to specify which content of pictures is most helpful in understanding the narration. In this study, the writer tried to conduct the shared book reading method in teaching reading narrative text. This research is quantitative research with a pre-experimental design as the research method for analyzing and collecting the data. This research was conducted to know whether there is a significant improvement in students’ reading skills before and after they are taught picture story books reading. The researcher used one group pre-test and post-test design. At last, researchers conclude that the use of picture story books to teach narrative text is affect the students’ reading comprehension. It is proven by the students’ mean score on the post-test greater than their mean score on the pre-test.