ABSTRACT Name : Cut Deriartina Student Number : 0806102020082 Study Program : EnglishEducation Title : Improving Students’ Reading Skill By Using Think-Aloud Technique (An Experimental StudyAt SMP Negeri1 Kuta Baro, Aceh Besar) Keywords: Reading Skill, Think-Aloud Technique Think-aloud is an effective practical classroom technique in which students verbalize their thoughts as thus bring into the open strategies they are using to understand a text. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 1 KutaBaro, Aceh Besar. The sample was the students of class VIII1. To gain the data, the writer conducted an experimental research, which used one group pre-test post-test design. In collecting data, the researcher administered pre-test, treatments, and post-test. Then, the writer employed some statistical formulas that are mean score, standard deviation and T-Score. After calculating the data, this study showed that the value of T-test is significant with are for one tail test.The result showed that T-test is higher than T-score, and it means that the difference is significant and the hypothesis is accepted.