Based on the applying of physical production, the reading materials that have been designed for grade VIII students of junior high schools should be able to
persuade the students to have desire in reading. It can be presented colorful with nice and suitable illustrating pictures. It also needs creativity and good knowledge to
explore the sources so the sources can match with the topic in the unit and also with the students’ attention. The exploration is also needed to decide appropriate texts for
Descriptive, Recount and Narrative that match to the syllabus of grade VIII students of junior high schools.
Students also will learn through some tasks in the reading materials. If the tasks consist of clear and appropriate instructions and activities, the students of grade
VIII junior high schools will be able to learn well. This arranging of the tasks presentation can be designed well using the pedagogical realisation. The tasks should
cover what and how to teach in reading for the eighth grade students of the school.
B. Suggestion
The main aim of this research study is designing reading materials for the eighth grade students of junior high schools . There are some suggestions for the next
research of the same or different of junior high school. The suggestions can be addressed to the other writer and English teacher as
follows: 1. As a teacher candidate, a student of English Education Faculty should be able
to design materials which are more suitable with students’ characteristics,
learning style, and syllabus that can be known through conducting needs analysis. The students should develop hisher knowledge through finding out
some relevant sources and applying them for the designing. Other involved knowledge and skills related to technology developing that will be needed for
doing the designing should also be mastered well by the student. 2. To the English teacher, a teacher should be able to encourage students in
learning, especially in preparing materials for herhis students. Of course students in different school will be in different condition too, so it is necessary
for a teacher to be able to design materials by herhimself. 3. For the next writer researcher, it is also important to do next research to
improve reading skill for grade students of SMPN I Tanjungsari through action research. It is according the problems of reading of the students in
SMPN I Tanjungsari, Gunungkidul.
