Development of Teaching Materials for the Pre-Reading and Writing Based on a Contextual Approach in Elementary Schools

This study was a development research with a Four-D development design from Thiagarajan. This study was conducted in two schools in Sinjai Regency, namely SDN 102 and MIN 2 Sinjai. There were two results in this study. The first was prototype development of teaching materials for teaching reading and writing based on a contextual approach in SD/MI uses the Four-D teaching material development procedure from Thiagarajan. The procedures consisted of four stages namely definition, design, development, and dissemination stage. The second result showed that teaching materials for beginning reading and writing based on a contextual approach in Class 2 were declared valid. Teaching materials for teaching reading and writing based on the contextual approach in SD/MI are categorized as valid because in the learning process the validity criteria have been met, namely the average value of expert validation results was categorized as valid. Teaching materials for teaching reading and writing based on a contextual approach in SD/MI were categorized as effective because there was an increase in learning outcomes after the development of teaching materials for beginning reading and writing were from low category to good category. The students’ responses in teaching reading and writing met the effectiveness criteria. Based on the data from the responses of teacher 1 and teacher 2, both of them gave positive responses. The observation sheet was in the good category, implemented completely, and the management of teaching materials for developing teaching reading and writing learning based on the contextual approach was in the very good category. Thus, it showed that the teacher's response, observation sheets, and learning management sheets for teaching materials for teaching reading and writing learning based on the contextual approach were in the practical category.