The Development of Thematic Integrative Character-Education Based Children Poetry-Writing Textbook

he textbook prototype; (3) develop the textbook prototype into welldeveloped textbook; (4 ) find out the feasibility of the poem� writing textbook; and (5) find out the effectiveness of poemwriting textbook application. Method which was used was Research and Development. There were four stages of this research namely exploration stage, designing the product prototype stage, development stage, and effectiveness test stage. Exploration stage found out that poetrywriting textbook was highly needed. Designing product prototype stage produce the early form of the poetrywriting textbook based on the result of the exploration stage. In development stage, the prototype was validated by the experts and tried out in limited field testing and extensive field testing in which the result was statistically analyzed using non� independent ttest. The result showed that the text book was stated feasible. Experiment research was done to know the effectiveness of the textbook (statistical test using non� independent ttest). It was found out that t operation > t table . Thus the hypothesis was accepted (H o was refused). The result of effectiveness test showed that thematic integrative charactereducation based children poetrywriting t extbook was stated effective.