This research aims to find out the effectiveness of the digital story as media for teaching reading narrative text to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 2 Pontianak in Academic Year 2014/2015. The research method that used is a pre-experimental and the research design that used is the one group pre-test post-test design.The sample of this research was class VIII D which consisted of 35 students. The technique of data collecting was measurement technique. The data were collected through pre-test and post test by usingthe multiple choice test which consist of 20 items.The result of data analysis showed that mean score post-test was higher than pre-test (from 60.85 to 79.28). The computation of the effect size with the score 1.80 ( > 1.00) shows that the use of digital story as media has the strongeffect in teaching reading narrative text
