The Use of Story Calendar Media to Increase Reading Comprehension Skill in Elementary School

This research was motivated by the low reading comprehension skill in elementary school. The result of students' learning mastery in 5th grade of SDN Sunia 1 reached only 20% with the 65 score in the KKM of Bahasa. The problem encouraged the researcher and the classroom teacher to work on improving reading comprehension skill using story calendar media. Story calendar media presents the material in the form of calendars that relates to each other so that it can be used as a portfolio. Each calendar page illustrates the development of student literacy and it is also complemented by graphic organizers which are some visual graphs that show the relationship between ideas, concepts, facts and terms in a single topic. This research used a classroom action research that was designed to empower all participants in the process (students, teachers and other participants) which was meant for improving the process and student learning results. The design used in this research was Classroom Action Eesearch Elliot design. This research was conducted in 3 cycles. Each cycle consisted of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection steps. The result of the research shows that story calendar media can improve reading comprehension skill. Based on the result of the reading comprehension test, it is known that the average of test results has increased. In the pre cycle, the reading comprehension was only 20%, in the cycle I it increased into 40%, in the cycle II it increased into 75% and in the cycle III it increased into 90%. These improvements show that story calendar media helps the students learn to improve their reading comprehension skills.