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  • Based on the writer’s prelimenary study, it was found that many students did not comprehend the narrative text in reading. These problems were caused by some factors, like some of the students were not able to find main idea in reading text, to identify information of text. So, the writer was interested in carrying out reserach about this problem. The purpose of this research was to find out the information about the students’ reading comprehension in narrative text by using paragraph shrinking strategy and by ordinary strategy and to find out the significant effect of using paragraph shrinking strategy towards students’ reading comprehension in narrative text at the second year students of SMA N 3 Pekanbaru. This reserach was an experimental research. The type of the research was quasy experimental reserach. The writer used quasy nonequivalentdesign. The writer used 2 (two) classes as sample that consisted of 33 students. Before giving the treatment, the students was given pre-tetst and posttest was given after the treatment. The technique of collecting data was test. The technique of data analysis used independent sample T-test formula in order to know the differenve between the average of posttest of experimental class and posttest of control class by using SPSS ver. 16.0. After having calculated the scores, it was found that the students’ reading comprehension in narrative text after giving treatment was better than before treatment. It means that there was a significant effect of using Paragraph ShrinkingStartegy towards students’ reading comprehension in narrative text of the second year students of SMA N 3 Pekanbaru. From the research finding, it can be concluded that teaching English especially reading by using Paragraph Shrinking Strategy made remarkable progress in reading narrative text.