Developing Literacy Reading Teaching Materials by Using Big Books as an Effort to Build the 2nd Grade Students' Characters in Elementary School
Producing appropriate literacy reading teaching materials as an effort to establish the 2nd grade students' characters is regarded as a crucial goal in literacy reading topics. Moral degradation that could threaten the Elementary School students' positive characters is viewed as a huge problem to be solved in educational world. One of the efforts that could be done to cope with the problem is by developing literacy reading learning materials by using Big Books which is intended to build the 2nd grade students' characters. To develop the learning materials, Plomp model was applied. Literature and field studies conducted produce the draft of Big Books – based literacy reading teaching materials. The Big Books – based learning materials are reflected by using self evaluation method, and are revised based on the users' needs. The validation was done in accordance with the results of expert review method. The results of the research show that the validity score of the learning materials developed is 3.80 (very valid). Hence, this research produces a set of Big Books – based literacy reading teaching materials for establishing the characters of the 2nd grade students of Elementary School.