Writing is an essential language skill in an academic setting. Writing requires some aspects such as organization, ideas, grammar and syntax, vocabulary and mechanics. This research proposed a teaching technique to help students in writing narrative text by using short animation. Short animation movie is very interesting media for students in narrative writing process because by this media is enjoyable. The researcher was interested to investigate the effectiveness of using short animation movie on students’ narrative writing skill. This research used quasi-experimental design which consisted of the experimental group and the control group. In the experimental group, the researcher used short animation movie and for the control group the researcher gave conventional teaching method to the students by using usual method such as explaining the materials to teach narrative writing skill.