Dyah Agustinie et al., A Study of the Tenth Grade Students’ Narrative Text Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMAN Tamanan Bondowoso Introduction English currently has become an international language which is widely used as a means of communication in the world. In addition, English also plays an important role in science and knowledge, since the books of science are mostly written in English. Therefore, the students, especially in Indonesia where English acts as a foreign language, should learn English in order to broaden their knowledge. Consequently, the government has put English as the compulsory subject in the junior and senior high school grades. The main objective of teaching English as stated in the 2013 Curriculum is developing communication in both the spoken and written forms covering listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Hanafi (2005:27) states that “reading is the most important factor that can support the process of mastering the other skills and improving knowledge”. In addition, Harmer (2004:66) mentions that reading texts provide good models of English writing for students in arranging sentences, paragraphs, and texts. The reading texts also provide opportunities to study the other language components such as vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. It means that reading is one of the important skills that should be taught first before the other skills because reading is quite important to lead the mastery of other language skills since reading is the window of the world. Through reading, the students can get new knowledge which can be used as their prior knowledge to support the mastery of other skills such as listening, speaking and writing. In 2013 Curriculum, the purposes of teaching reading at Senior High School include finding out the structure of the text, the main idea of the text, the general and specific information of the text, and the supporting details of the text. Due to these teaching purposes, the aspects of reading in this research was divided into four aspects, which were the aspect of word, sentence, paragraph, and whole text. In this case, word comprehension belongs to the finding of the specific information of the text; sentence comprehension belongs to the finding of specific information as well as the supporting details of the text; paragraph comprehension belongs to the finding out the structure of the text and the general information of the text; while text comprehension ARTIKEL ILMIAH MAHASISWA, 2014, I (1): 1-5 A Study of the Tenth Grade Students’ Narrative Text Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMAN Tamanan Bondowoso 1 Dyah Agustinie, Sugeng Ariyanto, Aan Erlyana Fardhani English Language Education Program, Language and Arts Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education The University of Jember E-mail: dyah.agustinie@gmail.com Abstract The purpose of this research was to describe the tenth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement of narrative texts at SMAN Tamanan Bondowoso. The research design was descriptive qualitative. The area determination method of this research was chosen by using purposive method. The subjects were the X MIA 2 students for tryout test and for reading comprehension achievement test were X MIA 1 students of SMA Negeri Tamanan Bondowoso in the 2014/2015 academic year. The data of this research were obtained from the students’ reading test, documents and interview. The result of the Tenth Grade students’ narrative text reading comprehension achievement was 64,28 and it was categorized as fair. The reading comprehension achievement showed that there were only 3 students (10,71%) who got “excellent” category that had range of 81-100. As many as 5 students (17,85%) got “good” category and the range was between 70-80. In addition, there were 13 students (46,43%) whose “fair” category and the range was between 60-69. There were also 7 students (25%) who obtained scores between 40-59 and got “poor” category. The last, there were no students (0%) who got “very poor" category and the range was <39. Keywords: Descriptive qualitative, Narrative text, Reading comprehension achievement.