The use of Digital Canva Based Comic Media in Improving Reading Comprehension Skills of Elementary School Students

This research is motivated by the many problems that arise during class learning. Especially in understanding a low reading that occurs in elementary school students. This is due to the lack of student interest and motivation in reading activities, because if these activities are not carried out properly it will become an obstacle to further learning activities. More specifically in learning that requires students to identify long texts. Given the importance of understanding reading, a learning media is needed that can improve students’ reading comprehension skills. So, the solution to these problems is to use digital canva-based comic media in learning. Through this digital canva-based comic media, students can improve their reading comprehension skills. Reading comprehension skills can increase along with students’ reading motivation which also increases after seeing learning media that is so close to the student’s world that students are interested in learning it. The subjects of classroom action research in this study were all students of class V C SDN Sariwangi in 2023, Parongpong District, West Bandung Regency. The instrument used is the improvement of learning outcomes for each cycle with indicators to be achieved, namely students must be able to find the main idea, find important information, equate arguments then draw their own conclusions, and retell the contents of the comic. Based on the results of data processing and analysis of cycle 1 and cycle 2, it turns out that there is an increase in students’ reading comprehension skills which can be seen from the increase in the percentage of learning completeness from cycle 1 and cycle 2 by $28.9 \%$. The conclusion is that there is an increase in reading comprehension skills of elementary school students in learning using digital canva-based comic media.