Abstract
Teaching materials about literature in the 2013 Curriculum should be text-based, but after careful discussion of the material in the curriculum and Sasak language textbooks in primary and secondary education, the emphasis is more on the value of beauty and character of story characters. In addition, teaching materials about the text of the Sasak literary genre are presented in Indonesian, not in Sasak; the amount of literature both in the form of fiction and poetry and others is still very limited. The limited material about literary genre texts has the consequence that learning about literary texts does not receive adequate attention. Based on these problems, this paper aims to discuss the text of the genre of folk literature in the Sasak language in terms of text structure, linguistic tools, and community values contained in it. Learning based on literary genre texts will support language skills and can help children understand the value and beauty of Sasak literature. The results of the study of literary genre texts are expected to help teachers prepare teaching materials for local content in the Sasak language.