This thesis is entitled “Teaching Descriptive Writing by Using Jumbled Pictures to the Tenth Grade Students at SMAN 2 Sungai Selan”. The problem of this study was “is it effective to use Jumbled Pictures in Teaching Descriptive Writing to the Tenth Grade Students at SMAN 2 Sungai Selan?”. The objective of this study was to find out whether or not it is effective to use Jumbled Pictures in teaching descriptive writing to the tenth grade students at SMAN 2 Sungai Selan?. The population of the study was all of the tenth grade students at SMAN 2 Sungai Selan consisting of 187 students from 6 classes. The sample were 31 students which were one group, such as pretest and posttest. The data obtained were analyzed by t-test. The data were calculated through SPSS 16.0. The result of data analysis showed that t-obtained 8.515, with the critical value 1.697, at the significant level 5% and df 30. Since t-obtained was higher than critical value. The null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It could be concluded that there was significant differences between students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph and taught Jumbled Pictures. It is clear that teaching descriptive writing by using jumbled pictures to the tenth grade students at SMAN 2 Sungai Selan was effective.
