Title:
DEVELOPMENT OF MIND MAPPING TEACHING MATERIALS TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE TEXTS FOR FIFTH GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Authors:
Wahyuni*, Setya Yuwana and Hendratno

Abstract:
This study aims to describe the validity, practicality and effectiveness of mind mapping teaching materials to improve reading comprehension of historical narrative texts for fifth grade elementary school students, on the theme of events in life; and to describe students' reading comprehension skills after using mind mapping teaching materials. This study refers to the ADDIE model. The subjects of this development research were fifth grade students of SDN Pucang 3 Sidoarjo. The trial was conducted using the one grub pretest posttest model. Collecting data using questionnaires, observations, and tests. Data collection techniques used qualitative and quantitative techniques. The results showed that (1) the quality of the product of mind mapping teaching materials and learning tools on the validity aspect was 87.22% (2) The quality of the development product based on the practicality aspect which included the results of observations of teacher activities obtained a percentage of 94.2% and the results of observations of student activities when learning to use mind mapping teaching materials by 86.6%, (3) mind mapping teaching materials developed effectively in improving students' reading comprehension skills. This is evidenced by the percentage of reading comprehension skills reaching 93.49%. And learning outcomes through a comparison of pretest and posttest on a small-scale trial show the value of t-statistics = 72.917 > t-table = 2.306 and a scale with t-test which shows the value of t-statistics = 17,538 > t-table = 1,697. From the results of this study, it can be concluded that the reading comprehension skills of fifth graders of historical narrative texts have increased after using mind mapping teaching materials.

Keywords:
mind mapping teaching material, reading comprehension skills, historical narrative text

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2021.4425