Development of Reading Workshop-Based Indonesian Language Interactive Teaching Materials to Improve Reading Comprehension Skills

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October 1, 2025
October 2, 2025
The reading ability of elementary school students in Indonesia is low. Ineffectiveness in reading learning is one of the causes of the low reading comprehension ability of fifth-grade elementary school students throughout the Nusa cluster. Therefore, interactive teaching materials are needed that guide students to improve their reading comprehension skills. This study aims to produce interactive teaching materials based on reading workshops that are suitable for use in learning, to determine the practicality and effectiveness of interactive teaching materials based on reading workshops, and to test the effectiveness of interactive teaching materials based on reading workshops in Indonesian language learning elements of reading on the reading comprehension ability of grade V elementary school students. The type of research used was Research and Development (R&D), which adapted the Borg & Gall development model. The study subjects were 39 grade V elementary school students in Karanganyar, Kebumen, Central Java. The data collection technique in this study used tests, interviews, observations, and scales (questionnaires). The analysis techniques used were descriptive analysis, t-test with independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test, and N-gain score. The results of the study show that: 1) the products of research and development in the form of interactive teaching materials based on reading workshops are feasible and practical to be used in Indonesian Language learning class V. 2) The product has proven to be quite effective in improving the reading comprehension ability of grade V elementary school students. 3) There is a significant influence on the reading comprehension ability, where the significance value is 0.000 < 0.05, so that teaching materials based on reading workshops effectively influence the reading comprehension skills of fifth-grade elementary school students.