One of the criteria for selecting text as teaching material is the suitability of the difficulty level of the text with the students' abilities. The purpose of this study was, a) to develop local wisdom-based text leveling media to improve elementary school students' early reading skills and b) to determine the effectiveness of local wisdom-based text leveling media to improve early reading skills of elementary school students. The method was used in this research was the R&D method. The research data were in the form of qualitative and quantitative data (teacher and student’s need assessment data). The result of developed local wisdom-based text leveling media were: (1) colored cover with the title on top; (2) the form of media to line up text based on local wisdom on A5 paper; (3) the language used is adjusted to the characteristics of first grade of primary school students. The feasibility test of the text leveling media showed that the media was very feasible to be used to improve early reading skills with an average pre-test score was 56 and percentage of completeness scores 43%, increasing in posttest with an average score 87 with an average percentage completeness score 100%.