This study aims to improve students writing skill on recount text through Instagram media. This objective contains the background that the researcher found that many students were bored with the media used in writing texts in the last semester of class X MIPA 1. In the previous semester on descriptive text material, text writing activities only used paper media to write so that students did not have creative ideas in writing descriptive text. The researcher carried out her research in the class X MIPA 1 SMAN 3 Kediri in the 2021/2022 academic year. There are 36 students in the class. This study used a classroom action research as research design. Classroom action research used Kurt Lewins model. This research has been carried out in one cycle in which the cycle consists of the stages of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The study was carried out in one cycle. In the cycle consisted of three meetings. The data were gathered in this study through Observation, Test and documentation. The results of this study indicate that there is an increase in students writing skills through Instagram media. This is evidenced by the average score on the pre-liminary test of 65,278 then the cycle test obtaining an average score of 76,389. on the results of the pre-liminary test there were 6 students or 16.67% who achieved the KKM score, while in the first cycle test there were 34 or 94.45% of students who achieved the KKM score. Based on the success criteria, the research is said to be successful if 80% of students get an average score of at least 75. Thus, this research in one cycle is declared successful in improving students abilities in writing skills. In other words, it can be said that the use of the Instagram application in learning to write recount text at SMA Negeri 3 Kediri is recommended to improve students abilities to achieve optimal results.

Nurdiana , Yulia .   (2022). Improving Students Writing Skill On Recount Text By Using Instagram Post As Visual Media. IAIN Kediri