<![CDATA[The skill of writing news articles requires students to be able to identify facts, organize information, and present it systematically in accordance with the structure and linguistic conventions of news texts. In classroom practice, students still face difficulties in developing ideas, completing the 5W+1H elements, structuring news articles, and correctly applying language and spelling conventions. This study aims to determine the differences in news writing skills between students who received instruction using the Probing Prompting model aided by a series of images and those who received conventional instruction. The study employed a quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental design in the form of a Non-equivalent Control Group Design. The study population consisted of all 349 seventh-grade students at SMP Negeri 18 Padang for the 2025/2026 academic year. The sample comprised 64 students, consisting of 32 students from Class VII G as the experimental group and 32 students from Class VII H as the control group, selected using purposive sampling. The data were obtained through a news writing performance test and analyzed using descriptive statistics, a normality test, a homogeneity test, an independent samples t-test, and Cohen’s d. The results showed that the average news writing skill score for the experimental group was 85.34, while that for the control group was 70.81, with a mean difference of 14.53 points. The results of the independent samples t-test showed a t-value of 7.950 with df = 62 and p < 0.001. Cohen’s d effect size of 1.97 indicates a large difference between the two groups. The experimental group’s performance was also higher on all four assessment indicators, completeness of the 5W+1H elements, news text structure, linguistic rules, and spelling and punctuation. These results indicate that the use of probing prompts is more effective in improving the news writing skills of phase D students.]]>
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