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Writing, one of the means of language communication, is used most widely in our daily lives. Writing is a productive skill which someone shows his thought through written words. Writing becomes an essential skill in this globalization era. In the modern world, written language serves a range of functions in everyday life such as for action, information, and entertainment. Coop Coop places teams in cooperation with one another to study a class topic. Coop Coop allows students to work together in small groups, first to advance their understanding of themselves and the world, and then provide them with the opportunity to share that new understanding with their peers. The Coop Coop lesson design touches every aspect of the writing process. In conducting this study, the researcher used an Experimental Quantitative Research design. It was done to find out whether teaching writing narrative text by using Coop Coop technique was effective to improve the writing ability of students. Thus, the researcher chose two groups for this research; they were experimental and control groups. The population chosen was all of the tenth graders in a state senior high school in Sidoarjo. The samples were X1 as the experimental group and X5 as the control group. Both groups were given pretest and posttest. The scores from pretest and posttest were used to collect the data. From the data, the researcher made statistical calculation by using t test and analysis to answer research questions. From the t test calculation, the t value was 3.37, while the t table was 2.00 in .05 level of significant with the degree of freedom 58. Moreover, the t test calculation was also conducted in each writing component. The t value for content was 3.26, organization was 3.27, vocabulary was 3.62, language use was minus 0.16 and for mechanics was 1.05. Furthermore, the result shows that there is significant improvement in the terms of content, organization, and vocabulary between the students who are taught writing narrative text by using Coop Coop technique and those who are not. On the other side, there is no difference in terms of language use and mechanics scores between the students who are taught by using Coop Coop technique and those who are not.