2. Easy to understand
The story in the Pop-up book is very easy to understand. The text type used in the medium is descriptive. The story basically shows the animal sounds.
The
Pop Up
book provides a certain repetitions in the sentences to introduce the animal and their sounds. The pictures also help the students to understand the
content better. In the end, the students can understand and remember the main point of the lesson easily.
b. Evaluators results
From the result of the evaluation, it is concluded that the medium is very good and feasible to be used as an instructional medium to teach reading for third
grade elementary school students. The recapitulation of the average score given by the evaluators is shown below:
Table 22: Recapitulation of the Average Score Given by the Evaluators Aspects
Score
Materials 88,57
Instructional 80,36
Media 90,62
Appearance 90
Total 349,55
Average
87,39
5. Research Problems
In the process of developing the Pop-up book, the only problem happened was how to make it become a book. Any kind of glue was not strong enough to
add the pages together. In the end the spiral wire was chosen, since it is very strong. Even though the price is somehow unreasonable, seeing the medium now,
it is worth it.
B. Suggestions
After explaining the conclusion in the previous part, the researcher gave some suggestions to the English teachers and other researchers. The suggestions
are as follow:
1. Suggestions for the English teachers of Elementary Schools
A pop-up book could be one good option for teaching aids used for teaching reading to elementary school students. Therefore, English teachers,
particularly the English teacher in SD Negeri 2 Mranti are suggested to use the product to teach reading. However, it is important to note that the teacher should
understand how to use the media before using them by reading the teacher’s guide book. Further development or modification is needed particularly to make a
suitable medium for students.
2. Suggestions for other researchers
A pop-up book has many benefits to teach the students. Developments for this kind of medium are needed to improve the medium itself to be a good
instructional medium. Since Pop-up book is a big help to motivate the students in learning English, it is suggested that other researchers develop similar media for
teaching reading or other skills to young learners. This developed medium is not perfect so hopefully the other researchers can develop better media.
