

This study was designed as research and development involving three stages including the exploration stage, the development stage of teaching materials models and the model validation stage. This study aims at producing a learning model in English reading Islamic narative texts for Islamic junior high schools in Central Java. Since this book just contains the story of the outstanding Prophets, it was suggested to cover all the Prophet stories for the next study. The suggestion given to the product of research was related to quantity of Prophet stories. Besides, they can also learn English Language, especially in increasing their vocabulary in English.


In short, through this story book of Prophets, students and readers can learn the virtuous – worthy character – of Prophets as the good model for them. The product of the research is a book consisting of the translated stories of Prophet which were reviewed by experts in terms of its plot, content, language and design. By developing the adapted model of Borg and Gall (1983), some procedures had been carried out. This research was conducted by using research and developmental design (R & D) because the goal is to develop a product, i.e. The purpose of this study is to develop the stories as the learning sources for teaching character at English lesson.
