The objective of the research is to find out the effectiveness of using jigsaw reading comprehension of descriptive text at SMAN 1 Gurah. The research on students’ reading was a quasi-experimental study. It involved 71 students of eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Gurah in the second semester of the academic year of 2018/2019. The students were divided into two groups: XI IA-4 class as the experimental group and XI IA-2 class as the control group. In the research, the students of XI IA-4 class were taught by using jigsaw technique whereas the students of XI IA-2 class were taught using reading aloud. The researcher used the reading comprehension test (pre-test and post-test) to collect the data. The data were analyzed by using ANCOVA in SPSS 21 version for windows. The result showed, that mean score of pre-test score of experimental group was 61.67 and the control was 55.43. In the post-test, the mean score of experimental group was 83.71 and the mean that score of control group was 78.75. The result of ANCOVA showed that the significance is 0.000. it less than 0,05 (0,000 < 0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that using jigsaw technique on students’ reading skill is effective to improve students’ reading skill (p < .05) because there is a significance different result between experimental and control group. It means that the students who are teaching reading using jigsaw technique better than students who only teaching reading by reading aloud. Based on the result of the test, the researcher concludes that using jigsaw technique is effective on students’ reading comprehension at SMAN 1 Gurah.

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