Star Book Media Development to Improving Story Writing Skills and Caring Character for Grade IV Elementary School Students

Abstract

ThepurposeofthisresearchanddevelopmentistoproduceaStarBookMediathatcan be used to improving story writing skills and caring characters for grade IV elementary school students who are declared eligible from media experts and material experts. This research and development refers to the Borg & Gall (1983) development. Data collection techniques used in this study is interviews, expert validation, questionnaire responses of teachers and students, writing tests and observation. Star Book media is declared eligible to improving story writing skills and caring characters for IV grade students based on the validating of media experts and material experts. Material experts provide a final score of 5 with a very good category. Media experts provide a final average score of 4.69 with a very good category.


 


 


Keywords: Caring Character; Star Book Media; Writing Stories; Elementary Students

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