Nugraheti Sismulyasih Sb, Panca Dewi Purwati, Umar Samadhy, Sukarir Nuryanto, Moh Farizqo Irvan
One of the criteria for selecting text as teaching material is the suitability of the text's difficulty level with the students' abilities. The purpose of this study was a) to develop local wisdom-based text levelling media to improve elementary school students' early reading skills and b) to determine the effectiveness of local wisdom-based text levelling media to improve early reading skills of elementary school students. The method was used in this research was the R&D method. The research data were in the form of qualitative and quantitative data (teacher and student’s need assessment data). The result of developed local wisdom-based text levelling media was: (1) coloured cover with the title on top; (2) the form of media to line up text based on local wisdom on A5 paper; (3) the language used is adjusted to the characteristics of the first grade of primary school students. The text levelling media feasibility test showed that the media was very feasible to improve early reading skills with an average pre-test score was 56 and percentage of completeness scores 43%, increasing in post-test with an average score of 87 with an average percentage completeness score 100%. © IEOM Society International.
Elementary School Teacher Education Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
