This study aimed at investigating whether or not there was a significant effect of Big Book as teaching media on the third grade students’ reading comprehension in south Bali. Research design of this study was Quasi Experimental of Post-test Only Control Group Design. The population was 56 students of the third grade students of elementary school in south Bali. Two classes were used as sample of this study. Class IIIA was assigned as experimental group and treated by using Big Book as teaching media. Meanwhile, class IIIB was assigned as control group and treated by using conventional media. The data were analyzed by using t-test through SPSS 16.0. The result of descriptive statistical analysis shows that mean score of experimental group is 80.5357 and control group is 75.3571. It means experimental group gets better score than in control group. The result of inferential statistical analysis shows comparison between tobs (t-observed) and tcv (t-critical value) that is 2.181>2.0049. It means that the value of tobs is higher than the value of tcv. It can be concluded that there is a significant effect on the third grade students’ reading comprehension taught by using Big Book as teaching media.

In this globalisation era, being able to manage our own learning is a mist and self-regulated learning can be the answer for making the students be able to do so. Identifying self-regulated learning implemented by the students of Junior High School in Buleleng sub-district and also identifying self-regulated aspects which were mostly implemented by Junior High School students in Buleleng sub-districtwerethepurposesofthis study. A total of 444 students from JuniorHighSchoolswhichhaveimplementedcurriculum 2013 were taken as the subjects of this study. Asaqualitativeresearch, the instruments used in this study were observation checklist, questionnaires and also interview guide. The result of the study shows that 78% of Junior High School students in Buleleng sub-district haveimplemented self-regulated learning and there aretwo aspects of self-regulated learning which aremostly implemented by the students, theyareself-judgment and self-reaction in which those two aspects are in self-reflection phase.