Functional literacy education is one of the non-formal education, which teaches citizens to learn literacy. The phenomenon that occurs is the low interest of citizens in learning, learning methods and strategies are still conventional. The approach and learning outcomes have not shown significant results as expected. Therefore it requires a new breakthrough in learning strategies. The purpose of the development was to find a learning model of functional literacy education based on folklore. The development model through 4-D which consists of the stages of defining, designing, developing, and deploying, is then tested on a limited basis. After that, validation was carried out, analysis of the implementation of rpp in developing Malin Kundang folklore-based learning. The results showed that learning functional literacy education based on folklore based on learning needs and local skills is a valid, practical, and effective model to apply.

Keywords: learning model, education, functional literacy, folklore