MENINGKATKAN KEAKSARAAN AWAL ANAK USIA DINI MELALUI MEDIA BOLA HURUF

Abstract

This study aims to improve early childhood literacy, with  media of ball letters in Group B children RA Miftahul Huda Bumiaji Batu. This dilator is motivated by the low ability of children to read at the beginning. This research was a collaborative classroom action research conducted in two cycles. The research subjects were 17 children in Group B with of 5 boys and 12 girls. The object of research was early literacy. Researchers used observation, interview and documentation techniques for data collection techniques. The research instrument used was an observation sheet instrument in the form of a check list. The indicators studied were indicators of the ability to say the sound symbols of letters, indicators of composing words, indicators of reading words and indicators of writing words. Data analysis techniques were carried out through quantitative descriptive.The indicator of success in this study was if the percentage of each indicator of early literacy in children reached ≥80% with very good criteria. The results showed that learning to use letter ball media could improve early childhood literacy. In the pre-action stage, the average percentage of achievement for new children reached 53.67%, in the implementation of Cycle I the percentage achieved was 77.2%, and the initial literacy achievement in Cycle II was 87.5%. The increase from Pre-action to Cycle I was 54.5%, and the increase from Cycle I to Cycle II was 31%.The steps for using letter ball media that can improve early literacy skills for beginning reading are as follows: a) The child chooses one of the fruit pictures on the rolling ball board such as a pineapple. b) Then the child mentions the letter symbols contained in the word pineapple. c) the child composes the word pineapple by rolling the ball onto the rolling ball board. d) the teacher asks the child to read the words that have been composed by the child.