Development of Text Levelling Based on Surabaya"s Local Culture

Reading skills in one of the most important language skills in the process of developmnet of knowledge since transfer of knowledge is mostly done through reading. In fact, every our activity is always associated with reading to recognize symbols, texts, pamphlets, announcements, posters, television shows, train travel schedules, ads, and the internet. All our lives are reading. The results of the PISA survey in 2006 and 2011 showed that the student's reading ability of Indonesia was still low compared to other countries. Therefore, this research in intended to develop a reading culture program through the design of tiered books in order to increase children read capability and to see their reading comprehension level.