This article seeks to explain the use of recount text to help students develop their narrative text. The idea was induced by students' common problems in writing a narrative and teachers' difficulties in scaffolding their students to write that genre. As recount and narrative genres share similar features, it is argued that using a recount as a basis, students will be able to produce a narrative more easily. Three main topics addressed here include a brief theoretical synthesis of narrative and

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... recount, the procedures of teaching to write narrative from recount, and a brief report of a classroom-based study using the strategy. The result of the study shows that the strategy could help the students produce their narratives well. In fact, they could produce stories of various themes, interesting conflicts, and ending. In addition, their language became more descriptive which made their description more vivid. Step by step teaching procedure is explained in details and is coupled with examples. It is expected that steps can be easily understood and applied by teachers. Abstrak Artikel ini menjelaskan penggunaan teks recount untuk membantu siswa dalam mengembangkan teks naratif mereka. Gagasan itu diinduksi oleh masalah umum siswa dalam menulis sebuah narasi dan kesulitan guru dalam perancah siswa mereka untuk menulis genre tersebut. Karena genre recount dan naratif memiliki fitur serupa, sehingga dapat dipahami bahwa menggunakan teks recount memungkinkan sebagai dasar bagi siswa untuk menghasilkan teks narasi dengan lebih mudah. Tiga topik utama yang dibahas di sini mencakup sintesis teoretis narasi dan teks recount, prosedur pengajaran untuk menulis narasi dari teks recount, dan laporan singkat sebuah studi berbasis kelas dengan menggunakan strategi tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa strategi tersebut dapat membantu siswa