Abstract:

Literacy is still the main problem in primary schools mainly among Orang Asli (aboriginal) students. The level of literacy among Orang Asli students are very low. In the present time, there are many reading, writing and calculating modules in the market to help teachers in teaching and learning in preschool and primary school levels. However, modules or reading materials for Orang Asli students are scarce and this makes it difficult for teachers in Orang Asli schools to diversify their teaching and learning methods in a class. Orang Asli students are not interested or motivated to go to school because they have difficulty in learning the syllabus, not interested in doing homework and one of the factors for their failure in a subject is because they forget easily what was taught by teachers. Therefore, this research aims to create a module (LIKES) that has a validation and high credibility to help increase a student's grasp in reading. If they are able to read this, it will motivate them to read various different types of reading materials such including textbooks, storybooks and many others. Generally, ADDIE model (Rosset, 1987) was used as a base to create a model. This research involved 5 phases which is carrying out an analysis, literature research, building a skeletal reading module, verifying the validity of module and testing the effectiveness of the module. Then, the researchers conducted a survey to assess the content validity of the module. The data were validated by six experts. The results showed that the LIKES module had a high content validity (>74 percent). Since the score was >70%, the contents validity of the LIKES reading module had good validity. It meant that this module was ready for use.

Keywords:

Reading literacy, LIKES reading module, Orang Asli students, teaching and learning.