Reading is a basic literacy that plays an important role in the intellectual development of
students. Based on various survey results, it was identified that the reading competence of
Indonesian students was very low. The purpose of this study was to implement educative
comics based on local folktale and examine its effect on increasing reading literacy of
primary school students in rural areas. The research approach applied is a quasi-
experimental design with pretest-post-test non-equivalent control group design. The …

Reading is a basic literacy that plays an important role in the intellectual development of
students. Based on various surveys, it was identified that the reading competence of
Indonesian students was very low. The research aims was to implement educative comics
based on local folktale and examine its effect on increasing reading literacy of rural primary
school students. The research is a quasi-experimental design with pre-test-post-test non-
equivalent control group design. The participants were 3rd grade elementary school …