This thesis is a pre-experimental research. The purpose of this research is to increase the students' motivation to learn English and make the students more active in teachinglearning process, especially in learning reading narrative text to tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas in the academic year of 2011/2012. The researcher used Reciprocal method in teaching reading narrative text to increase the students reading ability. The research was carried at SMA Muhammadiyah

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... Banyumas from May 23 th to May 24 th 2012. The number of population is all of students at tenth grade level. The sample was the first grade students consist of 30 students. The sampling technique of this thesis is saturated sampling. The reseacher was observed of two times, they are before(pre-test) and after giving the treatmen(post-test). The research Is quantitative research and used t-test for the technique of data analysis. To collect the data, the researcher used test as the instrument. The researcher used the written test. The type of test is multiple choices consist of 30 items. Based on the data analysis, it is found that t-value is 2.165 while the t-table is 1.699. It means that t-value is higher than the critical value on the t-table (2.165>1.699). According to the result of computation of the research, using Reciprocal Method to teaching reading narrative text is effective, especially to increase the students' reading ability.