This study aims to investigate the improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery through story telling strategy and the use of hand puppet media in grade VI of SDN Keras I Diwek Jombang. This was qualitative and quantitative study employing pretest-posttest individual design. The research population was students in grade VI of SDN Keras I Diwek Jombang in semester 2 in the academic year of 2018/2019. The data were collected by three instrument, those are observation sheet, field notes, and test the tests were administered to investigate students’ vocabulary mastery before and after treatment. The test instrument validated through expert judgment by using validation sheet. After tests validated, tests examined to the population in this study. The results of the study showed that the scores of students’ vocabulary mastery in the whole class before treatment were 38.3 in cycle 1 and 42.965 in cycle 2. Meanwhile the average of students’ score after treatment was 79.63 in cycle 1 and 80.63 in cycle 2. From the data, it can be concluded that there were effects or improvement of storytelling strategy and hand puppet media on vocabulary mastery in grade VI of SDN Keras I Diwek Jombang in the academic year of 2018/2019
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