The purposes of this study are to identify the level of communication skills and mathematical resilience of junior high school students and to find out their mistakes in finishing communication-based questions. The method used in this study is descriptive quantitative method. This study is conducted in an Islamic school namely MTs Al Basyariyah located in Bandung, Indonesia. Performing as the respondents of this study are 36 students of class IX-B. To collect the data, this study employs a communication-based question diagnostic test and a questionnaire on student resilience. The results of the study show that (1) most of the students find it difficult to do question number one whose indicator is written text; (2) students’ skill on doing communication-based questions is still low; and (3) there is not significant correlation between students’ communication skills and their resilience. To cope with these phenomena, it is recommended that teachers use learning strategies that are able to enhance students’ conceptual understanding so that their communication skills can be achieved.

Introduction: Issues of urgency in learning include interest in reading and social skills in primary schools. Interest in reading and social skills are some of the basic things that are always integrated into all learning. Therefore, learning requires appropriate media to overcome these problems, one of which is a sociocultural-based reflective picture storybook (SRPS) media. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to know the importance of SRPS media to increase the reading interest and social skills of elementary school students. Methods: In the paper, the method of a comparative literature review is applied. Conclusion: This concludes that SRPS media is important to increase the reading interest and social skills of elementary school students. To improve social skills and reading fondness, a media that is suitable for the characteristics of students is needed. Students’ interest in pictorial stories can be used as a solution to overcome the problem of low social skills and students’ fondness of reading characters that need to be improved. SRPS media is important to be developed in future research.

The purpose of writing this article is to find out about the importance of overcoming motor problems of elementary school-aged students. The method used is a literature review study. Impaired motor development can cause learning difficulties. This will have an impact on students such as low scores, low achievement, and difficulties in learning. In addition to matters related to academics, students usually feel embarrassed or make other friends feel annoyed and uncomfortable. Seeing the impact caused by motor problems can interfere with the learning process of children, it requires intervention from the school, especially by teachers who interact more intensively with children. Motor problems experienced by elementary school students certainly require intervention, as an initial screening to find out problems that may be experienced by students, it is necessary to do a universal intervention. This universal intervention is an intervention given to students whose problems at first are not known. Four aspects can benefit from optimizing the development of children's motor skills. The four aspects are the child's physiological, emotional, cognitive, and social. Other benefits are also grouped based on the optimization of fine and gross motor skills. Recommendations for future research to examine more deeply the motor problems of elementary school-aged students, so that the right method can be found to overcome them.

Storybooks are one of the interesting reading materials suitable for elementary school students. This paper discusses the development of reading material in the form of reflective picture storybook. The book is organized by prioritizing a combination of stories and illustrations that are appropriate to the development of elementary school students. Through reflective picture storybook, students are accustomed to doing reflective thinking in solving problems. The development of this book was carried out with the following steps: gathering information through questionnaires of needs analysis, interviews, and literature review; planning for product reflective picture storybook is made; expert judgment by material experts and media experts to measure product quality before conducting preliminary field testing. The results of the validation carried out by experts show that reflective picture storybook is in a good category which means it is feasible and can be used by elementary school students.