Reading is one of the four skills which plays ~ery important role in language learning. however, the students get some difficulties in reading skill the problems exists. because the students have .lack vocabulary and the material is not interesting. therefore, an effective and suitable technique needs to be considered in order to solve the problem. the objective of this study is to fmd out how picture and picture technique improves students' reading skill in recount text. the study was focussed on teaching reading in form of recount text by using picture and picture technique. to collect the data, this research used quantitative research. the data were collected by pretest and posttest. then, the writer formulated mean score, standard deviation and t-score, after calculating the data, this study showed that the value of tvtest is 7.5 (significant 0.05) with (df) 19 are 1.729 for one