LITERACY TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
NON NORMA MONIGIR
UNIMA
Abstract
This study focuses on disciplinary literacy activity and how the 5th grade students of elementary school become struggling writer to explore the given model text. To become a disciplinary writer, the students have to read many books with multi different themes. The activity of reading and writing is the ability to communicate in the form of written. The ability of someone to communicate, both in oral and written, can create better condition in life for young children as well as adult . The goal of this study is to improve the ability of writing skill by exploring their ideas they had from the given model text. The improvement of students- writing ability automatically will improve the outcome of Indonesia language subject. This research uses classroom action research with the four steps: planning, action, observation, and reflection. Each step has its own activity during the implementation of study. It has done in two cycleses with the activities to support the Indonesia language instruction. The collection of the data is by doing the checklist in observation form for literacy activity and the result of their writing. The result of this study show that the implementation of literacy activity can improve the students- writing ability. The result at the first cycle is 63%, and the second cycle is 84.5%. Based on the result achieved of this study it can be concluded that the implementation literacy activity can improve the ability of writing of the 5th grade students at elementary school (SD) GMIM 140 Pineleng. The recommendation to the teacher is that the teacher should use disciplinary literacy activity to the students in improving their writing ability as well as to improve the grade Indonesia language subject to the 5th grade students.
Keywords: literacy; writing ability; written communication
Topic: Learning / Teaching Methodologies and Assessment