Developing Picture Series to Improve The Students’ Ability in Writing Procedure Text of The 3rd Grade Students at SMP Brigjend Katamso Medan

This research was aimed to picture series as the students’ writing media in writing procedure text for grade 9 students of SMP Brigjend Katamso Medan. This study was categorized as Research and Development (R & D) study which adapted from Borg and Gall (2003). The method through six phases: conducting need analysis, designing, developing, experts validating, revising, and implementing. The subjects of this research were 28 students of grade nineteenth of SMP Brigjend
Katamso Medan which was located in Jl. Sunggal No.370 Medan. The data and data resources were the teacher’s lesson plan, teacher’s interview, and students’
questionnaires result. After getting the last data, the media should be planned to be designed as the students’ needs. The media were developed and had been validated by the experts. The percentages of the media from the experts were 90% that categorized as very good. It can be concluded that picture series gave many benefits for the students, such as improve the students’ ability in writing procedure text, made them enjoy studying English, got easier in learning procedure text after using needed media. The media were also eligible to use as media because it gave clear instruction to use it.