DEVELOPING COMIC-BASED READING MATERIALS FOR THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN 1 BELANGWETAN

As the basic skills, reading is difficult to learn. This condition may affect students’ reading interest and motivation. Students’ lack reading motivation influences their ability in reading English. The objective study is to develop reading materials for the fifth grade students of SDN 1 Belangwetan that are expected to increase the students’ reading skills. This study is a Research and Development (R and D). The instruments in the research are questionnaires, interview guide, and observation guide. The steps conducted in the research were enumerating learners’ characteristics, formulating goals, topics, and general purposes, formulating learning objectives, developing an instructional strategy, selecting and developing instructional materials, conducting evaluation, and conducting final revision. The data of the needs survey was used as the foundation for the design. The developed materials consist of eight units i.e. New Friend (unit 1), Back to School (unit 2), Find a Treasure (unit 3), Around My School (unit 4), Exciting Holiday (unit 5), Good Student (unit 6), Be a Winner (unit 7) and My Dream Job (unit 8). Each unit consisted of four sections namely Warm Up, Fun Reading, Fun Time, and Word Bank. The developed materials were evaluated by English teachers and instructors from various institutions. The evaluation and feedback provided by the teachers and instructors were then used as the basis for revisions. The evaluation was described in terms of central tendency. The result of evaluation showed that the mean the degree of agreement of the statements range from 3.1 to 4.6, indicating that the developed of reading materials was ready to be implemented