Abstract name : putri rizki student no. : 1206102020109 study program : english education title : teaching students’ writing skill through stay and stray technique (an experimental study at smpn 13 banda aceh) key words : stay and stray technique, writing skill, recount text. the objective of this research was to investigate whether the use of stay and stray technique improved students writing skill in recount text. this study was conducted at state junior high school 13 (smpn 13) banda aceh. the study used pre-experimental of one group pre-test – post-test design. the sample of this study was class viii-5with 21 students, which consists of 13 male and 8 female. the research instrument used in this study was the written test. for pre-test, the students were asked to write a recount text with the topic “memorable day” which consists of 70 words. for the post-test, they were asked to write a recount text with the topic “holiday” which consists of 70 words. the data