Enviroment-Based Supplementary Reading Materials for Junior High School Students
The research objectives aimed by this research are: (1) find out about Junior High School students need for environment-based supplementary reading materials; and 2) develop environment-based supplementary reading materials that are suitable for the students. This study is a research and development. The subjects involved in this research and development are eight grade students of a junior high school. The procedures in this research follow the modified research and development steps proposed by Borg & Gall into four development procedures. The steps of the modified research procedures were the exploration stage that included need analysis; the prototype development stage included the stages of planning and developing the format/draft; revision stage was completed by performing an expert judgement; and finalization stage that produced a final product. This supplementary reading is developed into 3 units. Each unit consists of list of new vocabularies, comic, main text and exercises. The developed texts are recount, descriptive and narrative. These texts convey how the relation between human and environment should be. The last part of each unit is by doing exercises that have a purpose as a confirmation.