Story Telling Method In Improving Early Children's Reading Ability

Abstract

Providing early childhood education is part of the teacher's duties at school, and is very important in improving reading skills for early childhood. Because, the importance of improving early childhood reading skills aims to prepare children to the next level. This study aims to find out how the teacher's efforts are in improving reading skills by using the story telling method in Sholeh Children's Playgroup (KB) in North Purwokerto District, Banyumas Regency. The object of his research is the teacher's efforts to improve children's reading skills using the story telling method in the Anak Sholeh Family Planning Program. While the research subjects were teachers and children. Data collection methods in this study are observation, interviews, and documentation. Then, for technical data analysis used, namely data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions as the final result. Efforts made by the Sholeh Child Family Planning teacher in improving early childhood reading skills by using the story telling method include making the class as comfortable as possible, arousing students' reading learning methods, building children's concentration to listen to story telling, giving praise to children, encouraging children, get used to pronouncing letters when story telling. The results of the study described that the use of the story telling method in the Sholeh Children KB was able to improve reading skills in early childhood. The reading skills mastered by KB Anak Sholeh students include children being able to recognize consonants, vowels, recognize letters in graphs, and read syllables. So the story telling method is an effective way and has a positive effect on the development of reading comprehension in the Anak Sholeh KB which has increased significantly.