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Nowadays, the developing and appreciating material based on students local based needs is very attractive. The purposes of this study are: 1) To find out the existing English reading materials used for the students of sixth grade at SDN 100107 Lobulayan in South Tapanuli regency; 2) To find out English reading material are needed by the students of sixth grade at SDN 100107 Lobulayan in South Tapanuli regency. This study is employed by implementing Research and Development design by Borg and Gall, 1983 but in implementing the model is simplified and adapted to Dirgeyasa (2011) become four steps: 1) evaluation and need analysis, 2) developing new material, 3) validating material, 4) final revision. The target of clients of this research was 29 correspondents which consisted of 25 students of SDN 100107 Lobulayan, 1 English teacher they are taken by using total sampling technique, 2 lecturers and 1 stakeholder is taken by using random sampling technique. The data was collected by questionnaire, documentation, and interview. The result of the study showed that the existing reading material used was not relevant with the needs of students of SDN 100107 Lobulayan in terms of topics, basic competences, assessment, and learning activities. After gaining the data from the evaluation and need analysis, it was found that the relevant reading material needed by the students of SDN 100107 Lobulayan are the material which related to their local based needs of area tourism and contains various tourism reading text; Aek Sijornih baths, Silima-Lima waterfall, and Parsariran Baths.