This thesis aimed to find out the effectiveness of using SQ3R method to teach students’ reading comprehension on narrative texts.Thisresearch used an experimental research. The population of this researchwas all of tenth grade of SMAN 13 Semarang in the academic year of 207/2018. In taking the sample, the writer used cluster sampling (area sampling). Class XI MIPA 3 was chosen as a try out class, X MIPA 2 as an experimental class and class X MIPA 3 as a control class. The instrument of this research was test. There were three tests in this research; they were try-out test, pre-test and post-test. Pre test is given to know the students’ ability before get a treatment and post test is given to measure the students’ ability after get treatment. The formula that used to analyze the data of pre-test and post-test was t-test. After collecting the data, it was found that the pre-test average score experimental class was52.895and control class was 50.132. Meanwhile, the post-test average score of experimental was 71.578 and control class was66.973. It was obtained that t-test was 2.543 and t-table was 1.666 for alpha (α) 5%. The t-test was higher than t-table (2.543> 1.666). It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. So, it can be concluded that the use of SQ3R Method was effective in the teaching reading of narrative texts.