Developing Extensive Reading Materials for Secondary School to Foster Students’ Reading Habit

Abstract

This study aims at developing extensive reading materials for Junior High School to foster students’ reading habit, as the first step of school literacy movement in Indonesia. This study utilizes Design and Development Research (DDR) by Richey and Klein (2007)[17] as the research method. Moreover, ADDIE model (Analysis, Design Develop, Implementation and Evaluation) is employed as instructional design model to develop the product. There are four data collection technique used; interview, questionnaire, test and observation. The product of this study is seven books as follows; The Five Pillars of Islam (Level A), Happy Halloween (Level A), Facts about Mosquitoes (Level C), The Legend of Surabaya (Level E), The Appointment in Samarra (Level G), The Return of Dracula (Level I), A True Friend (Level K). Those seven books are in the form of printed materials and within students’ independent reading level. They are supported with pictures, complemented with correlation level, preface, short-excerpt, glossary, commentary column, and books choice flowchart. Based on the theoretical and empirical validation, the seven books are suitable to be used as extensive reading materials in school literacy movement to foster students’ reading habit.