that all the materials would be taught effectively.
8. Presentation of the Designed Materials
This section is the answer to the second question in the problem formulation. After revising and improving the designed materials, the researcher presents the
final version of the set of reading materials by using children’s stories. There are six units in the designed materials. Every unit consists of three sections and each
section has a subsection.
B. Discussion
The researcher distributed an open-ended questionnaire to gain the respondents’ opinions, comments, and suggestions to improve the materials. The
questions aimed to gain the information about the weaknesses and strength, and the suggestions and comments.
According to the respondents the strength of the materials is the following: • The pictures are attractive.
• The pictures are appropriate with the materials. They can support the materials.
• Good lesson plan • The stories are well formulated.
The respondents gave some comments on the weaknesses as in the following:
• The reading texts are too long.
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• The level of vocabulary was too high. • Some sentences looked very Indonesian.
• Be consistent topic in gambaran umum, unit, and lesson plan • In unit two give more explanation about the alphabets, for example, a [ei], b
[bi:], c [ si ], etc. The respondents also gave the suggestions to improve the designed
materials as in the following: • The researcher should use simple sentences to create the stories.
• The researcher should give more varied activities in the whilst activity. • The researcher should provide teacher guideline besides the lesson plan to
guide teachers and to give key answer of the designed materials. • The researcher must write the sources where the researcher finds the pictures
and texts. • The researcher should give more explanation about the alphabets in unit two,
for example, a [ei], b [bi:], c [ si ], etc. The researcher agreed with all of the suggestions due to several reasons.
First of all, the researcher agreed that the designed materials use simple sentence because the students are fourth grade that most of the students’ abilities are in
average level. Besides, the researcher made the designed materials based on the curriculum for fourth grade of elementary school students.
Then, the second one is that the researcher agreed with the suggestion that the researcher should give more varied activities in the whilst activity. The aim of
giving more varied activities is to prevent the students get the boring condition.
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The third, the researcher agreed that the researcher should provide teacher guideline besides the lesson plan to guide teachers and to give key answer of the
designed materials. The aim of giving teacher guideline is to help the teacher to teach the materials easier. Beside that provide the key answer is to help the
teacher when the teacher fined the difficulties in finding the answer of the activities.
The fourth, the researcher agreed that the researcher must write the sources where the researcher found the pictures and text because the researcher have to
responsibility what have they write or what have they do. Beside, the readers know the source which the researcher added.
Last but not least, the fifth, the researcher also agreed with the suggestion that the researcher should give more explanation about the alphabets in unit two,
for example, a [ei], [bi], c [si}, etc because giving phonetic transcription will help the students to read or to pronounce the alphabets.
In general, the researcher agreed with all of the suggestions due to several reasons. First, the suggestions could help the researcher in developing the
designed materials. Second, the suggestion could increase the researcher’s knowledge in terms of designing materials.
C. Presentation of the Designed Materials
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