The development of technology brings challenges for teachers to be more innovative and creative in delivering materials. Teachers need to explore currently medium for teaching. To assist teachers and students in overcoming their difficulties, Powtoon Software was chosen. The goal of this study was to find out on whether Powtoon as a learning media was effective in improving the narrative text writing ability of grade XI students at SMA Negeri 1 Pegandon in the 2023/2024 academic year. This study used a quasi-experimental method. The population of this study was grade XI students of SMA Negeri 1 Pegandon and the sample consisted of grade XI 1 students as the control group and XI 2 as the experimental group. The control group and experimental group completed the pre-test and post-test. Data analysis in this study used SPSS. The findings showed a significance increase in students' writing achievement. This was evidenced by the significance value of 0.003. The value was smaller than 0.05 and this means that H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. Thus, it can be summarised that the use of Powtoon Software as a learning media was effective in improving students' narrative text writing ability.
Keywords: Powtoon Software, Writing, Narrative Text