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  • Writing is one of the language skills. The students feel difficult in this skill because they have to express their ideas in a written text. This issue also happened in SMP 2 Bae Kudus. The ability of writing narrative text of the eighth grade students of SMP 2 Bae Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 is low enough. Most of the students can not develop their ideas. As the result, the students’ writing score is categorized in poor criterion. Wordless picture book is the teaching media to solve the problem writing ability in narrative text. This book has many illustrations that give much ideas compose a narrative text because the story has chronological pictures which have problems and problem solving. The objective of this research are to find out whether there is any significant difference between the ability of writing narrative text of the eighth grade students of SMP 2 Bae Kudus in academic year 21013/2014 before and after they are taught by wordless picture book. The design of the research is quasi experimental research which is done by giving pre- test, treatments, and post- test to know the students’ writing ability. After nalyzing the research data, the writer finds out highest score is (70) and lowest score is (55) before being taught by using wordless picture book. While, the mean of pre- test score is 62.25 and deviation standard is 11.14. Otherwise, the highest and lowest scores after being taught by using wordless picture book are 95 and 60. Then, the mean and deviation standard are 81.5 and 10.01 Moreover, to know the level significant, the writer uses t- test analysis. T- test is 4.72and T- table is 2.07 on the level significant 5%. It means T- test > t-table. So, there is a significant difference between the ability of writing narrative text of the eighth grade students of SMP 2 Bae Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 before and after they are taught by wordless picture book. Based on the result above, wordless picture book can develop the students’ ability in writing text. The book helps them make a story based on their own imagination. The writer suggests that English teacher should use wordless picture book to solve the students’ problem in writing narrative text and for the next researchers, this research can be more evolved about the writing activity with other skill of English language.