This thesis is a study on improving students’ reading comprehension in narrative text by using Story Map Technique to the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 10 Pontianak in academic year 2014/2015. The writer took a classroom action research and the teaching learning process took place in two cycles. The subjects of this research were the students of grade X IPA 3 which consist of 39 students. From the observation checklist and field notes, it was found that all the students participated to the activity and did their task well. The students gave positive response to all the explanation and could use the story map technique effectively. For these results, it was concluded that story map technique improved students’ reading comprehension skill in narrative text in their Story Map Technique enabled the students to store information in their personal schema more efficiently and facilitated to recall the story elements more completely and accurately.