Improving Reading Skills by Comic for 2nd Grade Students in an Elementary School

Abstract

This study aims to improve pupils' reading skill by comics in the 2nd grade students of Elementary School Muhammadiyah Sagan Yogyakarta in the academic year 2016/2017. This study is a classroom action research. This study used observation, and questionnaire as data collection techniques. The data collection instruments of this study were handbooks of observation, and questionnaire. The study result showed that after the pupils have used the medium of comic learning, their reading skills improved from 66% in the pre-action to 73% in the cycle 1, then improved to 86% in the cycle 2. Keywords— skill, reading skill, medium of learning, comic, 2nd grade studentsl, elementary school