Utilization of Big Books in Reading Skills of Grade 4 Students Through Descriptive Texts in Elementary Schools

This study discusses the use big book in learning descriptive text skills for 4th grade students at SDN GRABAGAN. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of big book on the ability to reading descriptive text. The method used in this study is quantitative with a pre-experimental design that applies pre-test and post-test instrument. By using the paired sample T-test, it shows that there are differences in the results of the average scores of the pre-test and post-test, namely     for average value of the pre-test, and     , for the post-test. This shows that the use of big book has an influence in learning reading skills.