Abstract name : meutia studentno. : 0906102050072 study program : english education title : using snowball throwing technique in improving students’ reading comprehension (an experimental research at the second grade students of sma inshafuddin banda aceh) key word: reading comprehension, snowball throwing, and narrative text. the study is intended to find out whether the snowball throwing technique improves the students’ reading comprehension at the second grade of sma inshafuddin banda aceh or not. quantitative approach with experimental study of one group pre-test post-test design was undertaken to overcome the problems faced by the students in understanding narrative text. the instrument used to collect the data was objective test. in addition, to analyze the data, the writer used some statistical formula. the finding shows that, the mean score in the post-test was increased compared to the mean score in the pre-test. in the pre-test, the mean score was 50.33,