Improving Students’ Initial Reading Skills Through Big Bookmedia In Class Ib Of Mi Muhammadiyah Kedung Jampang

Classroom Action Research aimed to improve the students' initial reading skill through the big book media on the theme of Natural Events in the first grade of Elementary School. This study consisted of two cycles. Each cycle consisted of two meetings. The research design used in this study was Kemmis&Mc Taggart model with 4 stages, namely planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. Subject in this study was 24 students of class IB of this school consisting of 9 female students and 15 male students. Instruments used for collecting the data in this study were the initial reading skill assessment sheets supported by the teacher activity observation sheets, and the student activity observation sheets. The success indicator in this study was a very good value of the beginning reading skill of the students obtaining the learning mastery value of 70. The results of the study showed that the big book media can improve students' initial reading skills. It was proven by the data showing the increasing value of students' learning mastery in reading skills using this media. Students' average value was 2.42 with sufficient criteria in cycle I and 3.4 with very good criteria in cycle II. It can be concluded that this media can improve students' reading skills.