Big Book Media in Early Reading Learning of First Grade Students

Curently students experience difficulties in reading at school, moreover there is no learning media used by teachers to support initial reading skills in the learning process in grade 1 due to limited facilities and infrastructure at school. The purpose of this study is to develop and find out the validity of the big book media in learning to read at the beginning of grade 1 elementary school. While the subjects in this study were 1 teacher, 2 students and 2 design aspects, 2 material aspects, and 2 language aspects. The methods used to collect data are observation, interviews, and questionnaires. The instruments used were validation sheets and interview sheets and the data analysis techniques used were quantitative and qualitative. The research results obtained are big book media on theme 1 sub-theme 1 for grade 1 elementary school students who are suitable for use based on the assessment of design experts with a percentage of 93.8% with valid criteria, linguists 94.4% with valid criteria and material experts with a percentage 86.3% with very valid criteria. The average percentage of validation results is 91.5% with a very valid category without revision.