The Effectiveness of Local Wisdom Based on Textbook to Improve Students' Writing Literacy

Writing skills are quite complex problems inIndonesia and even the world. Writing is closely related to
reading, because to be a good writer, they should have agood capability in reading. Meanwhile, the problems facedby Indonesian people at this time are low in reading interest
and motivation also the availability of adequate textbooks.
The instruction of writing practice is delivered orally byteachers and certainly the result is not optimum. The
purpose of this study is to describe the effectiveness ofliteracy textbooks. The effectiveness of literacy text booksis seen from two aspects, namely students’ learning
outcomes in the form of product (textbook) of childrenstories are based on the "local wisdom" and students’responses to the application of textbooks in the learning
process. From the results of data analysis, it can beconcluded that the ability of students in understanding theliteracy textbooks is quite good. These results are obtained
from the products produced by the students in the form ofshort story scripts. The findings of this study showed thatthe ability to use the Indonesian spelling was still low and
need to be improved, because the fact that reported speechproduced by students are not in line with the rules. Inaddition, the story line in the children texts is still flat.
Whereas, the students’ responses on the effectiveness oftext books are in the "good" category. The students arevery interested in using of 'literacy' textbooks to write
children's story scripts based on the "local wisdom andcultivation of character" because they have the opportunityto produce a children's story script. They even asked for the
additional time and suggested that the teaching ofIndonesian spelling material to be inserted in the chapter of
the 'literacy' textbooks.